ligne de changement de date

/\liɲ də ʃɑ̃.ʒə.mɑ̃ də dat\/ noun

The verdict

“ligne de changement de date” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
27
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ligne imaginaire autour du 180e méridien indiquant l’endroit où il est nécessaire de changer de date quand on la traverse.

Key facts for ligne de changement de date
PropertyValue
Headwordligne de changement de date
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\liɲ də ʃɑ̃.ʒə.mɑ̃ də dat\
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ligne de changement de date” sits in French frequency

ligne de changement de date falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ligne de changement de date is 27 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \liɲ də ʃɑ̃.ʒə.mɑ̃ də dat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ligne imaginaire autour du 180e méridien indiquant l’endroit où il est nécessaire de changer de date quand on la traverse.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ligne de changement de date in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ligne de changement de date, spelled L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-N-G-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -D-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ligne imaginaire autour du 180e méridien indiquant l’endroit où il est nécessaire de changer de date quand on la traverse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ligne de changement de date"?
"ligne de changement de date" is spelled L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-N-G-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -D-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \liɲ də ʃɑ̃.ʒə.mɑ̃ də dat\.
What does "ligne de changement de date" mean?
As a noun, "ligne de changement de date" means: Ligne imaginaire autour du 180e méridien indiquant l’endroit où il est nécessaire de changer de date quand on la traverse.
How do you pronounce "ligne de changement de date"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ligne de changement de date" is \liɲ də ʃɑ̃.ʒə.mɑ̃ də dat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “ligne de changement de date”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-N-G-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -D-A-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \liɲ də ʃɑ̃.ʒə.mɑ̃ də dat\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.