liège
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,360
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
liège is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écorce épaisse et légère du chêne-liège qu’on utilise dans la fabrication de bouchons ou comme matériau isolant. Pronounced \ljɛʒ\. It ranks #5,360 in French word frequency. Often confused with lieu and lire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for liège is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,360 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for liège, with forms such as "ilège", "liege", and "ligèe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lieu", "lire", "lien", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is liège, spelled L-I-È-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écorce épaisse et légère du chêne-liège qu’on utilise dans la fabrication de bouchons ou comme matériau isolant.
- 2Partie la plus superficielle de l’écorce d’un arbre composé de cellules mortes issus de l'assise subéro-phellodermique.
- 3Chêne-liège.
- 4Garniture en liège au niveau du tenon de l’emmanchement de deux parties du corps d’un bois et qui permet d’assurer l’étanchéité (joint).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilège,liege,ligèe,lièeg,liègge,lliège,lèige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for liège
Misspelling Variants of "liège"
Frequency rank: #5,360 in French
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