liez
\lje\
The verdict
“liez” is uncommon French (frequency #68,423 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,423
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liez · liez · French
liez · rank #68,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,423
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limpidité
Nearest frequency peer: limpidité (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « liez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Leleu
Leleu
31,583 corpus weight
- leucocytes
leucocytes
31,582 corpus weight
- libérien
libérien
31,581 corpus weight
- liez
liez
31,578 corpus weight
- limpidité
limpidité
31,576 corpus weight
- Loana
Loana
31,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « liez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lje\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « liez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
liez is uncommon French at frequency #68,423 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for liez in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is liez, spelled L-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de lier.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de lier.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).