ligne de démarcation
\liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ligne de démarcation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Toute ligne tracée sur une carte, etc., pour marquer les limites de deux territoires, de deux propriétés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligne de démarcation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ligne de démarcation” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ligne de démarcation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ligne de démarcation has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. 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.
Definition
- 1Toute ligne tracée sur une carte, etc., pour marquer les limites de deux territoires, de deux propriétés.
- 2Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, limite entre la France occupée et la France du régime de Vichy.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ligne de démarcation”
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- The one correct French spelling is L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -D-É-M-A-R-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \liɲ də de.maʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.