led
\lɛd\
The verdict
“led” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,687) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,687
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diode semiconductrice à jonction qui émet une lumière colorée ou blanche lorsqu’elle est traversée par un courant électrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-led · led · French
led · rank #9,687 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,687
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancent
Nearest frequency peer: lancent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « led »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- jouera
jouera
90,317 corpus weight
- Julian
Julian
90,316 corpus weight
- lancent
lancent
90,315 corpus weight
- led
led
90,314 corpus weight
- lesbienne
lesbienne
90,313 corpus weight
- licenciement
licenciement
90,312 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « led » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | led |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « led »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for led is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "Li", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \lɛd\. Frequency #9,687 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Diode semiconductrice à jonction qui émet une lumière colorée ou blanche lorsqu’elle est traversée par un courant électrique.".
led doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "Li", "LR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 French form is led, spelled L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Diode semiconductrice à jonction qui émet une lumière colorée ou blanche lorsqu’elle est traversée par un courant électrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how led appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La société Schréder procède depuis mi-janvier à un test grandeur nature d’éclairage routier par des leds sur la N63 qui relie Marche-en-Famenne à Liège.
Un éclairage par leds, situé de chaque côté du réfrigérateur, donne une belle lumière homogène, froide et durable puisque les leds ne chauffent pas et que leur durée de vie est illimitée.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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