lieber
\ˈliːbɐ\
The verdict
“lieber” is uncommon French (frequency #92,936 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,936
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comparatif de gern. Plutôt, de préférence, mieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lieber · lieber · French
lieber · rank #92,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,936
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libérerait
Nearest frequency peer: libérerait (-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 « lieber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- leverage
leverage
7,068 corpus weight
- librettiste
librettiste
7,067 corpus weight
- libérerait
libérerait
7,066 corpus weight
- lieber
lieber
7,065 corpus weight
- lik
lik
7,064 corpus weight
- lilie
lilie
7,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lieber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈliːbɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lieber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lieber is uncommon French at frequency #92,936 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈliːbɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lieber in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 lieber, spelled L-I-E-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Comparatif de gern. Plutôt, de préférence, mieux.
- 2(Adverbe pour souligner une meilleure variante d'action).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lieber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich esse lieber Fleisch.
Lieber haben / mögen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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