Liban
\li.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“Liban” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,359
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays asiatique délimité à l’ouest par la mer Méditerranée, ayant des frontières communes avec la Syrie au nord et à l’est, et avec la Palestine au sud. Sa capitale est Beyrouth.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liban · Liban · French
Liban · rank #5,359 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,359
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liège
Nearest frequency peer: liège (+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 « Liban »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jackson
Jackson
94,645 corpus weight
- kong
kong
94,644 corpus weight
- Liban
Liban
94,642 corpus weight
- liège
liège
94,641 corpus weight
- loisirs
loisirs
94,640 corpus weight
- maires
maires
94,639 corpus weight
What this shows « Liban » 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 | Liban |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \li.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Liban »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Liban (IPA \li.bɑ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,359 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays asiatique délimité à l’ouest par la mer Méditerranée, ayant des frontières communes avec la Syrie au nord et à l’est, et avec la Palestine au sud. Sa capitale est Beyrouth.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Liban, with forms such as "ilban", "lbian", and "liabn". 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, "lin", "lien", "lion", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Liban, spelled L-I-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Pays asiatique délimité à l’ouest par la mer Méditerranée, ayant des frontières communes avec la Syrie au nord et à l’est, et avec la Palestine au sud. Sa capitale est Beyrouth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Liban appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma fille, dit l’ermite en la relevant, nous sonnons ordinairement la cloche de la Mission pendant la nuit et pendant les tempêtes, pour appeler les étrangers ; et, à l’exemple de nos frères des Alpes et du Liban, nous avons appris à notre chien à découvrir les voyageurs égarés.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilban
- lbian
- liabn
- libann
- libban
- libna
- lliban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Liban - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).