linette
\li.nɛt\
The verdict
“linette” is uncommon French (frequency #84,972 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,972
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graine de lin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-linette · linette · French
linette · rank #84,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,972
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liman
Nearest frequency peer: liman (-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 « linette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ligués
ligués
15,032 corpus weight
- Lillebonne
Lillebonne
15,031 corpus weight
- liman
liman
15,030 corpus weight
- linette
linette
15,029 corpus weight
- lito
lito
15,028 corpus weight
- Livius
Livius
15,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « linette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « linette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
linette is uncommon French at frequency #84,972 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for linette in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is linette, spelled L-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Graine de lin.
- 2Nom de la linotte commune.
- 3Nom de l'hirondelle de mer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how linette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arbitres des prix et sans aucune surveillance sur la qualité de la graine, les négociants du Nord préjudicient beaucoup a l’intérêt des cultivateurs et au commerce de la Bretagne. Ils ont encore à redouter les fraudes et les falsifications trop ordinaires aux marchands qui débitent la linette dans cette province.
This word in other languages
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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