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lis

noun

lis is spelled L-I-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lis means “Clipping of fleur-de-lis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lis is lisses.

How many letters and syllables are in lis?

Letters3: L-I-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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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 lis?

Lis appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 lis?

    Lis 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).

    What rhymes with lis?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lis.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: sil.

    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 lis

    • lisses plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does lis mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      Clipping of fleur-de-lis.

    2. 2

      The substance of a legal dispute.

    3. 3

      plural of li (a form of li)

    noun

    as LIS
    1. 1

      Initialism of library and information science.

    2. 2

      Initialism of locked-in syndrome.

    noun

    as LIs
    1. 1

      plural of LI (a form of LI)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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