limiers
\li.mje\
The verdict
“limiers” is uncommon French (frequency #62,413 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,413
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de limier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limiers · limiers · French
limiers · rank #62,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,413
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logeant
Nearest frequency peer: logeant (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « limiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lets
lets
37,591 corpus weight
- leviathan
leviathan
37,590 corpus weight
- limiers
limiers
37,588 corpus weight
- logeant
logeant
37,587 corpus weight
- Loisel
Loisel
37,586 corpus weight
- lok
lok
37,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « limiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.mje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « limiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
limiers is uncommon French at frequency #62,413 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de limier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for limiers in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is limiers, spelled L-I-M-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de limier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how limiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute la meute se déchaînait à la fois : les aboiements lourds des limiers, les glapissements rapides des spitz, les jappements criards des épagneuls, la voix mélancolique des bassets qui pleurent, tout se confondait avec le cliquetis des chaînes, les secousses des chenils ébranlés par la rage ; et, par-dessus tout cela, le hurlement continu, monotone, du…
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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