Li
The verdict
“Li” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,501) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,501
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole de Lissounov (en russe Boris Pavlovitch Lissounov, Борис Павлович Лисунов), ingénieur aéronautique soviétique qui, en collaboration avec Vladimir Miassichtchev, lança un programme de re-mot...
Corpus desk
Index FR-li · Li · French
Li · rank #4,501 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,501
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libérer
Nearest frequency peer: libérer (+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 « Li »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intense
intense
95,503 corpus weight
- joindre
joindre
95,502 corpus weight
- Li
Li
95,500 corpus weight
- libérer
libérer
95,499 corpus weight
- malheur
malheur
95,498 corpus weight
- Mali
Mali
95,497 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Li » 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 | Li |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Li »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Li is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #4,501 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole de Lissounov (en russe Boris Pavlovitch Lissounov, Борис Павлович Лисунов), ingénieur aéronautique soviétique qui, en collaboration avec Vladimir Miassichtchev, lança un programme de re-mot...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Li in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "lo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Li, spelled L-I.
Definition
- 1Symbole de Lissounov (en russe Boris Pavlovitch Lissounov, Борис Павлович Лисунов), ingénieur aéronautique soviétique qui, en collaboration avec Vladimir Miassichtchev, lança un programme de re-motorisation du Douglas DC-3 dans le but de produire une version nationale sous licence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Li appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lissounov Li-2 est le nom donné en URSS au bimoteur américain Douglas DC-3, produit sous licence.
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.