ligneuses
\li.ɲøz\
The verdict
“ligneuses” is uncommon French (frequency #69,201 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,201
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de ligneux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligneuses · ligneuses · French
ligneuses · rank #69,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,201
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH ligatures
Nearest frequency peer: ligatures (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ligneuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Leclère
Leclère
30,804 corpus weight
- libérait
libérait
30,802 corpus weight
- ligatures
ligatures
30,801 corpus weight
- ligneuses
ligneuses
30,800 corpus weight
- listening
listening
30,799 corpus weight
- livresque
livresque
30,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ligneuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligneuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.ɲøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligneuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligneuses is uncommon French at frequency #69,201 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.ɲøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de ligneux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ligneuses in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 ligneuses, spelled L-I-G-N-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de ligneux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ligneuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette addition seule a donné le mouvement à la machine ; le surplus a été employé pour balancer la cohérence des fibres ligneuses.
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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