lignée
\li.ɲe\
The verdict
“lignée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,875
- frequency rank, French
- 128,088
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble des humains qui font partie d’une même famille généalogique.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lignée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lignée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around lignée (IPA \li.ɲe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,875 among 128,088 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for lignée, with forms such as "ilgnée", "lginée", and "liggnée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "line", "ligue", "linge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lignée, spelled L-I-G-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des humains qui font partie d’une même famille généalogique.
- 2Ensemble des populations directement issues d'un individu identifié.
- 3Ensemble d’éléments taxinomiques du vivant issus d’un même taxon.
- 4Ensemble de produits commercialisés sous une appellation différente mais correspondant à une utilisation proche ou similaire.
- 5Ensemble d’éléments reliés entre eux par certains points communs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilgnée
- lginée
- liggnée
- lignee
- ligneé
- lignnée
- ligéne
- lingée
- llignée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lignée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “lignée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-I-G-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \li.ɲe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “line” - see the side-by-side comparison. lignée vs line
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.