lily
\ˈlɪl.i\
The verdict
“lily” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,800
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lis ou lys.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lily · lily · French
lily · rank #11,800 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,800
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Liam
Nearest frequency peer: Liam (-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 « lily »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jets
jets
88,205 corpus weight
- jugements
jugements
88,204 corpus weight
- Liam
Liam
88,202 corpus weight
- lily
lily
88,201 corpus weight
- LNH
LNH
88,200 corpus weight
- légalité
légalité
88,198 corpus weight
What this shows « lily » 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 | lily |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɪl.i\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lily »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lily (IPA \ˈlɪl.i\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,800 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lis ou lys.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lily, with forms such as "illy", "lilyy", and "liyl". 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, "lit", "lol", "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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lily, spelled L-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Lis ou lys.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illy
- lilyy
- liyl
- llily
- lliy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lily - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).