liesse
\ljɛs\
The verdict
“liesse” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,121
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joie débordante et collective.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liesse · liesse · French
liesse · rank #31,121 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,121
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libertin
Nearest frequency peer: libertin (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « liesse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lew
lew
68,883 corpus weight
- Leyde
Leyde
68,882 corpus weight
- libertin
libertin
68,881 corpus weight
- liesse
liesse
68,880 corpus weight
- loufoque
loufoque
68,879 corpus weight
- Lucille
Lucille
68,878 corpus weight
What this shows « liesse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | liesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « liesse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around liesse (IPA \ljɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,121 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Joie débordante et collective.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for liesse, with forms such as "ilesse", "leisse", and "liese". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lise", "liste", "lisse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 liesse, spelled L-I-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Joie débordante et collective.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait dans le mois certains jours de splendeur, où l’on ne serait pas descendu dans la rue sans gants, jours de liesse, où l’on dînait toute la journée.
Et maintenant on exigeait de lui, accablé, des chants, de la joie, une communion avec l'aveugle liesse populaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilesse
- leisse
- liese
- lieses
- lisese
- lliesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of liesse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).