ligne Maginot
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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ligne Maginot is aFrenchname. It means: Ligne de fortifications construite par la France à sa frontière avec l’Italie, la Suisse, l’Allemagne, le Luxembourg et la Belgique dans les années 1930, mais qui se révéla plutôt inefficace lors d... Pronounced \liɲ ma.ʒi.no\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligne Maginot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \liɲ ma.ʒi.no\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for ligne Maginot is 13 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \liɲ ma.ʒi.no\. 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 Maginot 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 Maginot, spelled L-I-G-N-E- -M-A-G-I-N-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ligne de fortifications construite par la France à sa frontière avec l’Italie, la Suisse, l’Allemagne, le Luxembourg et la Belgique dans les années 1930, mais qui se révéla plutôt inefficace lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
- 2Défense réputée inviolable, mais inefficace.
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