lidia
\li.dja\
The verdict
“lidia” is uncommon French (frequency #74,155 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,155
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combat tauromachique, série d'affrontements entre un taureau et le toréro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lidia · lidia · French
lidia · rank #74,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,155
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liana
Nearest frequency peer: liana (-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 « lidia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- levèrent
levèrent
25,850 corpus weight
- LGBTI
LGBTI
25,848 corpus weight
- liana
liana
25,847 corpus weight
- lidia
lidia
25,846 corpus weight
- lingette
lingette
25,844 corpus weight
- lipidique
lipidique
25,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lidia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lidia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.dja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lidia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lidia is uncommon French at frequency #74,155 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.dja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Combat tauromachique, série d'affrontements entre un taureau et le toréro.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lidia in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lidia, spelled L-I-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Combat tauromachique, série d'affrontements entre un taureau et le toréro.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lidia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une corrida comprend six lidias qui, chacune, se décompose en trois actes, appelés tercios.
Le fait que le taureau tué à l’issue d’une lidia soit ensuite débité et consommé comme nourriture ne change rien au fait que son agonie ritualisée et sa mort ont eu pour seul but d’être un spectacle.
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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