linh
\liɲ˦\
The verdict
“linh” is uncommon French (frequency #90,884 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,884
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui procède par miracle (en parlant des esprits).
Corpus desk
Index FR-linh · linh · French
linh · rank #90,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,884
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lick
Nearest frequency peer: lick (-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 « linh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lewy
lewy
9,121 corpus weight
- libérable
libérable
9,119 corpus weight
- lick
lick
9,118 corpus weight
- linh
linh
9,117 corpus weight
- listée
listée
9,115 corpus weight
- localisant
localisant
9,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « linh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \liɲ˦\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « linh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
linh is uncommon French at frequency #90,884 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \liɲ˦\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for linh in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is linh, spelled L-I-N-H.
Definition
- 1Qui procède par miracle (en parlant des esprits).
- 2.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how linh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hai trăm linh năm
Ba trăm linh sáu
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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