lias
\ljɑs\
The verdict
“lias” is uncommon French (frequency #85,874 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,874
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de couches marneuses et argileuses sur lequel reposent les terrains oolithiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lias · lias · French
lias · rank #85,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,874
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lhasa
Nearest frequency peer: Lhasa (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lexiques
lexiques
14,129 corpus weight
- Lhasa
Lhasa
14,128 corpus weight
- lias
lias
14,127 corpus weight
- Libano
Libano
14,126 corpus weight
- libellée
libellée
14,125 corpus weight
- likely
likely
14,124 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɑs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lias is uncommon French at frequency #85,874 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ljɑs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Système de couches marneuses et argileuses sur lequel reposent les terrains oolithiques.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lias, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lias, spelled L-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Système de couches marneuses et argileuses sur lequel reposent les terrains oolithiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant d'arriver au village d’Etion, la Société s'est arrêtée à une carrière ouverte également dans l'étage moyen du lias, mais où le calcaire prédomine davantage.
Les assises du lias et du système colithique inférieur surtout sont quelquefois criblées de leurs débris ; mais, presque toujours aussi, les parties minces et feuilletées de la plume et même le phragmocône sont absents.
This word in other languages
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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