lignages
\li.ɲaʒ\
The verdict
“lignages” is uncommon French (frequency #65,276 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,276
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lignage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lignages · lignages · French
lignages · rank #65,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,276
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Leyla
Nearest frequency peer: Leyla (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lignages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Levinas
Levinas
34,728 corpus weight
- Leyla
Leyla
34,726 corpus weight
- lignages
lignages
34,725 corpus weight
- limitative
limitative
34,724 corpus weight
- linear
linear
34,723 corpus weight
- liquoreux
liquoreux
34,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lignages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lignages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ɲaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lignages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lignages is uncommon French at frequency #65,276 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.ɲaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lignage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lignages in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lignages, spelled L-I-G-N-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lignage.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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