ligne de rhumb
\liɲ də ʁɔ̃b\
The verdict
“ligne de rhumb” 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) - Courbe décrite par un navire lorsqu’il navigue à cap constant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligne-de-rhumb · ligne de rhumb · French
ligne de rhumb · 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 rhumb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \liɲ də ʁɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ligne de rhumb is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \liɲ də ʁɔ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courbe décrite par un navire lorsqu’il navigue à cap constant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ligne de rhumb in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 borrowing history is documented 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 rhumb, spelled L-I-G-N-E- -D-E- -R-H-U-M-B.
Definition
- 1Courbe décrite par un navire lorsqu’il navigue à cap constant.
Synonyms
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.