linotte
\li.nɔt\
The verdict
“linotte” is uncommon French (frequency #74,956 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,956
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs petits oiseaux siffleurs, passereaux de la famille des fringillidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-linotte · linotte · French
linotte · rank #74,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,956
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH linnéenne
Nearest frequency peer: linnéenne (-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 « linotte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lidar
lidar
25,049 corpus weight
- limiteur
limiteur
25,047 corpus weight
- linnéenne
linnéenne
25,046 corpus weight
- linotte
linotte
25,045 corpus weight
- logeaient
logeaient
25,043 corpus weight
- lonesome
lonesome
25,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « linotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.nɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « linotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
linotte is uncommon French at frequency #74,956 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.nɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for linotte in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is linotte, spelled L-I-N-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs petits oiseaux siffleurs, passereaux de la famille des fringillidés.
- 2Personne ayant peu de mémoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how linotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces jeunes gens, ça n’a pas plus de tête, de prévoyance que des linottes, parole d’honneur !
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).