lez
\lɛ\
The verdict
“lez” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,063) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,063
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À côté de, proche de, tout contre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lez · lez · French
lez · rank #21,063 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,063
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lillois
Nearest frequency peer: lillois (+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 « lez »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Jéhovah
Jéhovah
78,941 corpus weight
- keep
keep
78,940 corpus weight
- lez
lez
78,938 corpus weight
- lillois
lillois
78,937 corpus weight
- liqueur
liqueur
78,936 corpus weight
- liégeois
liégeois
78,935 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lez » 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 | lez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \lɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lez »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lez is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "Li", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \lɛ\. Frequency #21,063 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "À côté de, proche de, tout contre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lez, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lez, spelled L-E-Z.
Definition
- 1À côté de, proche de, tout contre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rouvroy-lès-Pothées et Remilly-lès-Pothées, malgré leur nom, ne faisaient pas non plus partie de la baronnie des Potées. L'expression lès ou lez indique seulement que ces villages en étaient voisins.
Roche-lez-Beaupré se trouve proche de Besançon sur la route menant à Baume-les-Dames.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).