ligne de front
\liɲ də fʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“ligne de front” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne fictive séparant deux forces armées ennemies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligne-de-front · ligne de front · French
ligne de front · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ligne de front is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \liɲ də fʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ligne de front appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a tellement de gens qui sont sur la ligne de front dans le Donbass, à Kherson, à Zaporijie, ils ressentent cela tous les jours.
"Plus les Russes avancent, plus ils débloqueront toute la ligne de front pour se déplacer, plus les Ukrainiens auront besoin de ressources pour les contenir", estime Pasi Paroinen du groupe OSINT Black Bird Group, basé en Finlande, cité par le Kyiv Independant.
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.