liber
\li.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“liber” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,419
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu végétal secondaire produit par le cambium des tiges et des racines, conducteur de la sève élaborée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liber · liber · French
liber · rank #29,419 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,419
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lentes
Nearest frequency peer: lentes (-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 « liber »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Langres
Langres
70,585 corpus weight
- lanta
lanta
70,584 corpus weight
- lentes
lentes
70,583 corpus weight
- liber
liber
70,582 corpus weight
- libyens
libyens
70,581 corpus weight
- Lisieux
Lisieux
70,580 corpus weight
What this shows « liber » 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 | liber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « liber »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around liber (IPA \li.bɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,419 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for liber, with forms such as "ilber", "lbier", and "libber". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lie", "lieu", "lire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is liber, spelled L-I-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tissu végétal secondaire produit par le cambium des tiges et des racines, conducteur de la sève élaborée.
- 2Fibre textile tirée de ce tissu végétal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une salle voisine est exposé un grand canot monoxyle flambant neuf, creusé selon les techniques ancestrales dans un tronc de thuya (ici appelé cedar). Une vidéo détaille les étapes de sa fabrication tandis qu’une autre illustre la confection des nattes cérémonielles en fibres de liber du même arbre.
On donne, en effet, comme une règle générale, que le lieu d’apparition des premières formations libéroligneuses secondaires est en relation étroite avec l’emplacement du liber primaire : le cambium se constitue d’abord au niveau des tubes criblés […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilber
- lbier
- libber
- liberr
- liebr
- lliber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of liber - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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