online

/\ɔn.lajn\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,003

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

online is anFrenchadj. It means: En ligne (connecté à un réseau ou à un système, notamment Internet). Pronounced \ɔn.lajn\. It ranks #8,003 in French word frequency. Often confused with olive and obligé.

Key facts for online
PropertyValue
Headwordonline
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɔn.lajn\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,003
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of online in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for online is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔn.lajn\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,003 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En ligne (connecté à un réseau ou à un système, notamment Internet).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for online, with forms such as "noline", "olnine", and "onilne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "olive", "obligé", "offline", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is online, spelled O-N-L-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    En ligne (connecté à un réseau ou à un système, notamment Internet).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: noline,olnine,onilne,onlien,onlinne,onlline,onlnie,onnline

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for online

Misspelling Variants of "online"

noline6olnine6onilne6onlien6onlinne7onlline7onlnie6onnline7
Misspelling Variants of "online"

Frequency rank: #8,003 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "online"?
"online" is spelled O-N-L-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔn.lajn\.
What does "online" mean?
As an adj, "online" means: En ligne (connecté à un réseau ou à un système, notamment Internet).
What words are commonly confused with "online"?
"online" is commonly confused with "olive", "obligé", "offline". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "online"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "online" is \ɔn.lajn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "online" come from?
"online" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.