lift
\lift\
The verdict
“lift” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,378
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effet sur une balle produit en la frappant de bas en haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lift · lift · French
lift · rank #39,378 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,378
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lisle
Nearest frequency peer: Lisle (+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 « lift »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- letters
letters
60,626 corpus weight
- levage
levage
60,625 corpus weight
- lift
lift
60,623 corpus weight
- Lisle
Lisle
60,622 corpus weight
- Lockheed
Lockheed
60,621 corpus weight
- Lorie
Lorie
60,620 corpus weight
What this shows « lift » 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 | lift |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lift\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lift »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around lift (IPA \lift\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,378 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lift, with forms such as "ilft", "lfit", and "lifft". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LT", "lit", "lot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lift, spelled L-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Effet sur une balle produit en la frappant de bas en haut.
- 2Ascenseur.
- 3Liftier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lift appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plus brave des hommes oserait-il regarder en plein dans les yeux un hippocampe : point d’interrogation à tête de cheval tout droit jailli des profondeurs à la surface du rêve ? Ce beau fils des mers, plus vertical dans son ascension qu’un lift dernier cri, ce Centaure dont la simple présence trouble au point que tout doive être remis en question, quel…
Nous prîmes l’ascenseur ; elle garda le silence devant le lift. L’habitude d’être obligé de recourir à l’observation personnelle et à la déduction pour connaître les petites affaires des maîtres […] développe chez les employés (comme le lift appelait les domestiques) un plus grand pouvoir de divination que chez les patrons.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilft
- lfit
- lifft
- liftt
- litf
- llift
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lift - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).