lied
/liːd/noun, verb
lied is spelled L-I-E-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lied means “An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lied is lieder.
How many letters and syllables are in lied?
| Letters | 4: L-I-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lied?
Lied appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lied?
- /liːd/
As a verb: /laɪd/.
Lied has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lied_2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lied.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with lied
Sounds like: lede, leed (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with lied?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lied.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: idle, deli, diel.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of lied
- lieder plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lied mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of lie (in the sense "to give false information intentionally")
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does lied come from?
Borrowed from German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed, which was inherited by Old English lēoþ (“poem”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).