Linné
\li.ne\
The verdict
“Linné” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,163
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui, par ses travaux scientifiques, dresse une nomenclature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-linne · Linné · French
Linné · rank #34,163 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,163
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH levain
Nearest frequency peer: levain (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Linné »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Larson
Larson
65,842 corpus weight
- lassant
lassant
65,841 corpus weight
- levain
levain
65,839 corpus weight
- Linné
Linné
65,838 corpus weight
- lite
lite
65,836 corpus weight
- longer
longer
65,835 corpus weight
What this shows « Linné » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Linné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \li.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Linné »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Linné (IPA \li.ne\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,163 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui, celle qui, par ses travaux scientifiques, dresse une nomenclature.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Linné, with forms such as "ilnné", "liné", and "linén". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lire", "lune", "live", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Linné, spelled L-I-N-N-É.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui, par ses travaux scientifiques, dresse une nomenclature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Linné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Véritable Linné de la prostitution, Parent-Duchâtelet se livre, pour l’heure, à une description très précise des « filles en numéro », des « filles en carte », des « filles à soldats », des « filles de barrière » […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilnné
- liné
- linén
- llinné
- lniné
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Linné - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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