lis
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,413
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lis is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Iris) Planta de la familia de las irídeas, formada por tallos que miden generalmente entre cinco y seis decímetros de largo, con hojas ensiformes que tienen cerca de la mitad de esa longitud, y qu... Pronounced [ˈlis]. Often confused with lo and Lu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlis] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lis is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlis]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,413 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lo", "Lu", "ll", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lis, spelled L-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Iris) Planta de la familia de las irídeas, formada por tallos que miden generalmente entre cinco y seis decímetros de largo, con hojas ensiformes que tienen cerca de la mitad de esa longitud, y que terminan en flores de gran tamaño, con seis pétalos de vivos colores, generalmente morado, azul o blanco.
- 2Mueble 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 abajo. En la parte inferior tiene un remate de tres puntas.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #20,413 in Spanish
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