Lille
[ˈliʝe]
The verdict
“Lille” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,643
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - es una ciudad de Francia
Corpus desk
Index ES-lille · Lille · Spanish
Lille · rank #46,643 · 5 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,643
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH lilas
Nearest frequency peer: lilas (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Lille”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- libaneses
libaneses
53,360 corpus weight
- lilas
lilas
53,359 corpus weight
- Lille
Lille
53,358 corpus weight
- Lillian
Lillian
53,357 corpus weight
- limeña
limeña
53,356 corpus weight
- llorosos
llorosos
53,354 corpus weight
What this shows “Lille” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Lille |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈliʝe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Lille”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Lille (IPA [ˈliʝe]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,643 among 2,069 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "es una ciudad de Francia".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lille, with forms such as "illle", "lile", and "lilel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "lle", "live", "line", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Lille, spelled L-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1es una ciudad de Francia
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illle
- lile
- lilel
- llile
- llille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).