# lire

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #33,310

## Definitions
1. Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
2. The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.

## Etymology
From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).

## Easily confused with
- **LR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lr)
- **lit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lit)
- **Liz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-liz)
- **Liu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-liu)
- **Liv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-liv)
- **lis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lis)
- **LRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lrt)
- **lor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lor)
- **lye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lye)
- **love** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-love)
- **live** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-live)
- **list** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-list)
- **lord** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lord)
- **lose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lose)
- **Luke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-luke)
- **Lisa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lisa)
- **lone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lone)
- **lure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lure)
- **lowe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lowe)
- **lore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lire-vs-lore)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ilre`, `lier`, `lirre`, `llire`, `lrie`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lire