Liebe
\ˈliː.bə\
The verdict
“Liebe” is uncommon French (frequency #82,189 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,189
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liebe · Liebe · French
Liebe · rank #82,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,189
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libertariens
Nearest frequency peer: libertariens (-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 « Liebe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Leys
Leys
17,817 corpus weight
- liar
liar
17,815 corpus weight
- libertariens
libertariens
17,813 corpus weight
- Liebe
Liebe
17,812 corpus weight
- ligoter
ligoter
17,811 corpus weight
- linteaux
linteaux
17,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Liebe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Liebe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈliː.bə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Liebe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Liebe is uncommon French at frequency #82,189 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈliː.bə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Amour.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Liebe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Liebe, spelled L-I-E-B-E.
Definition
- 1Amour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Liebe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Und konnte ich fürchten, daß diese unglückliche Liebe das kluge Klärchen so bald hinreißen würde? Ich muß es nun tragen, daß meine Tochter …
Filme sind mein Zeitvertreib, Bücher sind meine Liebe, meine Leidenschaft. Aber Musik ist meine Zuflucht. Wenn ich fröhlich oder ausgelassen bin, was zugegebenermaßen selten vorkommt, dann lege ich eine ebensolche Scheibe auf – von Ella Fitzgerald vielleicht oder Sarah Vaughan –, und dann habe ich fast das Gefühl, dass sich jemand mit mir freut.
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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