lingette
\lɛ̃.ʒɛt\
The verdict
“lingette” is uncommon French (frequency #74,157 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,157
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte d’étoffe croisée de laine, espèce de flanelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lingette · lingette · French
lingette · rank #74,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lidia
Nearest frequency peer: lidia (-2 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 « lingette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- LGBTI
LGBTI
25,848 corpus weight
- liana
liana
25,847 corpus weight
- lidia
lidia
25,846 corpus weight
- lingette
lingette
25,844 corpus weight
- lipidique
lipidique
25,842 corpus weight
- lipstick
lipstick
25,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lingette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lingette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ̃.ʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lingette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lingette is uncommon French at frequency #74,157 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛ̃.ʒɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lingette, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lingette, spelled L-I-N-G-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’étoffe croisée de laine, espèce de flanelle.
- 2Serviette en carré de tissu non-tissé en cellulose, en viscose ou en polyester, imbibée de substances nettoyantes, ne nécessitant pas d’eau, à usage unique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lingette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lingettes ou flavets qui est une espèce de serge, la pièce de 20 aunes payera 4 livres.
Des lingettes, serviettes hygiéniques des tampons, des cotons tiges "créent des gros soucis sur les ouvrages", souligne-t-il, en mentionnant "une quantité astronomique de lingettes".
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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