liberté

/\li.bɛʁ.te\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#740

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

liberté is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pouvoir inaliénable de l’individu, droit qu’il a de disposer de sa personne ; capacité des individus et des organisations qu’ils forment à agir sans restrictions autres que celles imposées par la loi. Pronounced \li.bɛʁ.te\. It ranks #740 in French word frequency. Often confused with libre and lierre.

Key facts for liberté
PropertyValue
Headwordliberté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\li.bɛʁ.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#740
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of liberté in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for liberté is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.bɛʁ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #740 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for liberté, with forms such as "ilberté", "lbierté", and "libberté". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "libre", "lierre", "liberty", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is liberté, spelled L-I-B-E-R-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pouvoir inaliénable de l’individu, droit qu’il a de disposer de sa personne ; capacité des individus et des organisations qu’ils forment à agir sans restrictions autres que celles imposées par la loi.
  2. 2
    Chacun des droits qu’un tel pouvoir implique.
  3. 3
    Possibilité qu’a en pratique une personne, un animal, ou parfois une chose, de penser sans contraintes, d’agir selon son bon vouloir, de se mouvoir sans contrainte.
  4. 4
    Permission.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilberté,lbierté,libberté,liberrté,liberte,libertté,liberét,libetré,libreté,liebrté,lliberté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for liberté

Misspelling Variants of "liberté"

ilberté7lbierté7libberté8liberrté8liberte7libertté8liberét7libetré7
Misspelling Variants of "liberté"

Frequency rank: #740 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "liberté"?
"liberté" is spelled L-I-B-E-R-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \li.bɛʁ.te\.
What does "liberté" mean?
As a noun, "liberté" means: Pouvoir inaliénable de l’individu, droit qu’il a de disposer de sa personne ; capacité des individus et des organisations qu’ils forment à agir sans restrictions autres que celles imposées par la loi.
What words are commonly confused with "liberté"?
"liberté" is commonly confused with "libre", "lierre", "liberty". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "liberté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "liberté" is \li.bɛʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "liberté" come from?
"liberté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.