Linde
\ˈlɪndə\
The verdict
“Linde” is uncommon French (frequency #60,163 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,163
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tilleul (arbre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-linde · Linde · French
Linde · rank #60,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,163
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Ligures
Nearest frequency peer: Ligures (-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 « Linde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libertines
libertines
39,840 corpus weight
- Ligures
Ligures
39,839 corpus weight
- Linde
Linde
39,838 corpus weight
- lionceaux
lionceaux
39,837 corpus weight
- lituaniens
lituaniens
39,836 corpus weight
- loon
loon
39,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Linde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Linde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɪndə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Linde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Linde is uncommon French at frequency #60,163 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈlɪndə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tilleul (arbre).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Linde in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Linde, spelled L-I-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Tilleul (arbre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Linde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Denn es war frühzeitig kalt geworden. Draußen, jenseits der Straße, war schon jetzt, um die Mitte des Oktober, das Laub der kleinen Linden vergilbt, die den Marienkirchhof umstanden, um die mächtigen gotischen Ecken und Winkel der Kirche pfiff der Wind, und ein feiner, kalter Regen ging hernieder.
Synonyms
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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