lieu
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#221
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lieu is aFrenchnoun. It means: Portion de l’espace, soit prise en elle-même, soit considérée par rapport à ce qui l’occupe. Pronounced \ljø\. It ranks #221 in French word frequency. Often confused with Lu and lit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lieu is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljø\. Corpus data places it at rank #221 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for lieu, with forms such as "ileu", "leiu", and "liue". 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, "Lu", "lit", "lis", 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 lieu, spelled L-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Portion de l’espace, soit prise en elle-même, soit considérée par rapport à ce qui l’occupe.
- 2Il se dit aussi par rapport à la destination.
- 3Endroit désigné ou indiqué.
- 4Appartement ; différentes pièces d’un bien immobilier.
- 5(Au pluriel) Lieu d’aisance, latrines.
- 6Objet d’étude de la topologie.
- 7Objet d’étude de la topographie.
- 8Point du ciel auquel répond une planète, une comète.
- 9Place, rang.
- 10Place, rang.
- 11Maison ou famille, comme dans ces phrases :
- 12Endroit, temps convenable pour dire, pour faire quelque chose.
- 13Moyen, sujet, occasion. → voir avoir lieu et avoir lieu de
- 14Passage d’un livre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ileu,leiu,liue,llieu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lieu
Misspelling Variants of "lieu"
Frequency rank: #221 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our French index: