flor de lis

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for flor de lis is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfloɾ ð̞e ˈlis]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mueble heráldico que representa de forma estilizada a un lirio visto de perfil, del que se ven tres pétalos, siendo el del centro largo y ancho y los de los lados más pequeños y curvados hacia abaj...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for flor de lis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Spanish form is flor de lis, spelled F-L-O-R- -D-E- -L-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.