licites
\li.sit\
The verdict
“licites” is uncommon French (frequency #72,496 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,496
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de licite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-licites · licites · French
licites · rank #72,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libra
Nearest frequency peer: libra (-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 « licites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- libelle
libelle
27,508 corpus weight
- libidineux
libidineux
27,507 corpus weight
- libra
libra
27,506 corpus weight
- licites
licites
27,505 corpus weight
- lii
lii
27,504 corpus weight
- linder
linder
27,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « licites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | licites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.sit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « licites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
licites is uncommon French at frequency #72,496 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \li.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de licite.".
licites has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is licites, spelled L-I-C-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de licite.
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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