lieux
\ljø\
The verdict
“lieux” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,003. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,003
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lieu (portion de l’espace).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lieux · lieux · French
lieux · rank #1,003 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,003
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lettre
Nearest frequency peer: lettre (-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 « lieux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- européenne
européenne
99,001 corpus weight
- F
F
99,000 corpus weight
- lettre
lettre
98,999 corpus weight
- lieux
lieux
98,998 corpus weight
- Lyon
Lyon
98,997 corpus weight
- parole
parole
98,996 corpus weight
What this shows « lieux » 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 | lieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lieux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around lieux (IPA \ljø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,003 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lieux, with forms such as "ileux", "leiux", and "lieuxx". 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, "lux", "ligue", "Linux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lieux, spelled L-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lieu (portion de l’espace).
- 2Toilettes (apocope de "lieux d'aisance").
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous arrêtons dans ces citations si incomplètes, si difficiles à faire comprendre sans la musique et sans la poésie des lieux et des hasards, qui font que tel ou tel de ces chants populaires se grave ineffaçablement dans l'esprit.
Au bout de deux mois, ça finit par m’ennuyer de passer par ce corridor où il y a des araignées, de pousser la porte des lieux (on dérange toujours quelqu’un), de marcher sur ces gravats qui usent les souliers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ileux
- leiux
- lieuxx
- liexu
- liuex
- llieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lieux - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).