liane
\ljan\
The verdict
“liane” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,125
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante sarmenteuse qui prend appui sur un support.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liane · liane · French
liane · rank #35,125 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,125
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lesbien
Nearest frequency peer: lesbien (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « liane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- LCD
LCD
64,879 corpus weight
- Lellouche
Lellouche
64,878 corpus weight
- lesbien
lesbien
64,877 corpus weight
- liane
liane
64,876 corpus weight
- libertinage
libertinage
64,875 corpus weight
- license
license
64,874 corpus weight
What this shows « liane » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | liane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « liane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around liane (IPA \ljan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,125 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for liane, with forms such as "ilane", "liaen", and "lianne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lie", "lin", "lire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is liane, spelled L-I-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante sarmenteuse qui prend appui sur un support.
- 2Femme filiforme au corps souple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] tous deux pouvaient continuer leur conversation, à moitié cachés par les lianes de liserons et de capucines enroulées au-dessus de leurs têtes.
Les vignes sauvages, les bignonias, les coloquintes, s’entrelacent au pied de ces arbres, escaladent leurs rameaux, grimpent à l’extrémité des branches, s’élancent de l’érable au tulipier, du tulipier à l’alcée, en formant mille grottes, mille voûtes, mille portiques. Souvent, égarées d’arbre en arbre, ces lianes traversent des bras de rivière, sur lesque…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilane
- liaen
- lianne
- linae
- lliane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of liane - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "liane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).