ligne de démarcation

/\liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

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ligne de démarcation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toute ligne tracée sur une carte, etc., pour marquer les limites de deux territoires, de deux propriétés. Pronounced \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for ligne de démarcation
PropertyValue
Headwordligne de démarcation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ligne de démarcation is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ligne de démarcation is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for ligne de démarcation 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 démarcation, spelled L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -D-É-M-A-R-C-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Toute ligne tracée sur une carte, etc., pour marquer les limites de deux territoires, de deux propriétés.
  2. 2
    Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, limite entre la France occupée et la France du régime de Vichy.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ligne de démarcation"?
"ligne de démarcation" is spelled L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -D-É-M-A-R-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "ligne de démarcation" mean?
As a noun, "ligne de démarcation" means: Toute ligne tracée sur une carte, etc., pour marquer les limites de deux territoires, de deux propriétés.
How do you pronounce "ligne de démarcation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ligne de démarcation" is \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.