lies
\li\
The verdict
“lies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,660) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,660
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lies · lies · French
lies · rank #24,660 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,660
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Libreville
Nearest frequency peer: Libreville (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lies »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- legal
legal
75,345 corpus weight
- library
library
75,343 corpus weight
- Libreville
Libreville
75,342 corpus weight
- lies
lies
75,341 corpus weight
- liquidités
liquidités
75,340 corpus weight
- loués
loués
75,339 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lies » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lies »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lies is neighbouring look-alikes ("LS", "lit", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \li\. Frequency #24,660 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de lie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for lies, with forms such as "leis", "liess", and "llies". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LS", "lit", "lis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lies, spelled L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- leis
- liess
- llies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lies - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).