Lille
\lil\
The verdict
“Lille” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,321
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lille · Lille · French
Lille · rank #2,321 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,321
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH langage
Nearest frequency peer: langage (-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 « Lille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fans
fans
97,683 corpus weight
- laissez
laissez
97,682 corpus weight
- langage
langage
97,681 corpus weight
- Lille
Lille
97,680 corpus weight
- légèrement
légèrement
97,679 corpus weight
- mange
mange
97,678 corpus weight
What this shows « Lille » 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 | Lille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Lille (IPA \lil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,321 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lille, with forms such as "illle", "lile", and "lilel". 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, "lire", "live", "line", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Lille, spelled L-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Nord.
- 2Commune de la province d’Anvers de la région flamande de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai été passer la journée à Lille : sauf le musée, rien de bien notable ; c’est une ville flamande comme Douai, mais moins reposée et d’un type moins pur.
Le rapport confirmait les caractéristiques du révolver, un Sig-Sauer SP 2022 immatriculé 1233245576SSPS, déclaré perdu par un auxiliaire de police lors d’une attaque de banque à Lille.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illle
- lile
- lilel
- llile
- llille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lille - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (5 here; floor ≥5).