lis
[ˈlis]
The verdict
“lis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,413) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,413
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,069
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (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...
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Index ES-lis · lis · Spanish
lis · rank #20,413 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,413
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,069
- PHOTO-FINISH levántate
Nearest frequency peer: levántate (-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 “lis”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ladera
ladera
79,591 corpus weight
- levantaba
levantaba
79,590 corpus weight
- levántate
levántate
79,589 corpus weight
- lis
lis
79,588 corpus weight
- Locke
Locke
79,586 corpus weight
- lucen
lucen
79,585 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “lis” 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 | 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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “lis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lis is neighbouring look-alikes ("lo", "Lu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈlis]. Frequency #20,413 among 2,069 “L” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is lis, spelled L-I-S.
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
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).