lie
[ˈlje]
The verdict
“lie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,700) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,700
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de liar o de liarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-lie · lie · Spanish
lie · rank #25,700 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,700
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH Lerma
Nearest frequency peer: Lerma (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “lie”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Kings
Kings
74,304 corpus weight
- Lerma
Lerma
74,302 corpus weight
- lie
lie
74,301 corpus weight
- limpian
limpian
74,300 corpus weight
- Loyola
Loyola
74,299 corpus weight
- lárgate
lárgate
74,298 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lie” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lie |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlje] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lie”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lie is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈlje]. Frequency #25,700 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de liar o de liarse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "Lu", "ll", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is lie, spelled L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de liar o de liarse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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