linea
\liˈne.a\
The verdict
“linea” is uncommon French (frequency #67,668 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,668
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de linear.
Corpus desk
Index FR-linea · linea · French
linea · rank #67,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,668
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Limburg
Nearest frequency peer: Limburg (-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 « linea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- levers
levers
32,337 corpus weight
- ligotée
ligotée
32,335 corpus weight
- Limburg
Limburg
32,334 corpus weight
- linea
linea
32,333 corpus weight
- lisier
lisier
32,332 corpus weight
- Lodz
Lodz
32,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « linea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \liˈne.a\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « linea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
linea is uncommon French at frequency #67,668 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \liˈne.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for linea in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is linea, spelled L-I-N-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de linear.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) de l’impératif de de linear.
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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