liebenswürdig
\ˈliːbənsvʏʁdɪç\
The verdict
“liebenswürdig” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gentil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liebenswurdig · liebenswürdig · French
liebenswürdig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liebenswürdig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈliːbənsvʏʁdɪç\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
liebenswürdig is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈliːbənsvʏʁdɪç\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gentil.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for liebenswürdig, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is liebenswürdig, spelled L-I-E-B-E-N-S-W-Ü-R-D-I-G.
Definition
- 1Gentil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liebenswürdig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
»Nein, wir sind nicht verheiratet,« sagte Gervaise. »Ich mach kein Hehl daraus. Lantier ist nicht so liebenswürdig, daß man seine Frau sein möchte. (...)«
»Mein Vater!« rief Villefort. »Ich habe mich also nicht geirrt; ich vermutete, daß Sie es wären!« »Wenn du das vermutet hast«, entgegnete der Ankömmling, indem er seinen Stock in einen Winkel stellte und den Hut auf einen Sessel legte, »so erlaube ich mir, dir zu sagen, mein lieber Gérard, daß es von dir nicht liebenswürdig ist, mich so lange warten zu la…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.