lin
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,118
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante herbacée de la famille des Linacées, à feuilles simples, à fleurs généralement bleues, cultivée dans les pays tempérés pour ses graines oléagineuses et pour la fibre textile que fournit sa t... Pronounced \lɛ̃\. It ranks #8,118 in French word frequency. Often confused with Lu and LR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lin is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,118 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "lo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lin, spelled L-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée de la famille des Linacées, à feuilles simples, à fleurs généralement bleues, cultivée dans les pays tempérés pour ses graines oléagineuses et pour la fibre textile que fournit sa tige.
- 2Appellation commune du linaire.
- 3Plante fibreuse dont on fait des toiles.
- 4Fibre textile obtenue à partir de la tige de cette plante.
- 5Tissu fait de cette fibre.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #8,118 in French
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