ligneux
\li.ɲø\
The verdict
“ligneux” is uncommon French (frequency #66,876 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,876
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de la nature de la lignine, qui en contient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ligneux · ligneux · French
ligneux · rank #66,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH ligueurs
Nearest frequency peer: ligueurs (+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 « ligneux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lectoure
Lectoure
33,130 corpus weight
- libero
libero
33,127 corpus weight
- ligneux
ligneux
33,125 corpus weight
- ligueurs
ligueurs
33,124 corpus weight
- Llorente
Llorente
33,123 corpus weight
- longboard
longboard
33,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ligneux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.ɲø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ligneux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ligneux is uncommon French at frequency #66,876 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.ɲø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ligneux in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ligneux, spelled L-I-G-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est de la nature de la lignine, qui en contient.
- 2Qualifie une plante dont la tige a la consistance du bois, grâce à la lignine qu’elle contient.
- 3Qualifie les articulations d’une personne présentant des nodosités le plus souvent dues au labeur, à la vieillesse ou à la maladie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ligneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Œillet des Chartreux (Dianthus Carthusianorum L.), à racine presque ligneuse; le calicule, formé de nombreuses écailles brunâtres ou rougeâtres, est entouré d’un involucre constitué par deux bractées longuement aristées.
Structure des Fougères. — Ces sont des plantes aflores, aux tiges généralement souterraines (rhizomes) pour les espèces des régions tempérées, parfois ligneuses chez celles des zones tropicales.
Synonyms
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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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