ligne de front
\liɲ də fʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“ligne de front” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ligne fictive séparant deux forces armées ennemies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligne de front |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \liɲ də fʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ligne de front” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ligne de front is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \liɲ də fʁɔ̃\. 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 fictive séparant deux forces armées ennemies.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ligne de front, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ligne de front, spelled L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -F-R-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ligne fictive séparant deux forces armées ennemies.
This word in other languages
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 front”
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- -F-R-O-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \liɲ də fʁɔ̃\ (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.