lip
\ˈlɪp\
The verdict
“lip” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,022) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,022
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lèvre, babine. Note d’usage : Très souvent employé au pluriel pour comprendre la lèvre supérieure et la lèvre inférieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lip · lip · French
lip · rank #29,022 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,022
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH localisées
Nearest frequency peer: localisées (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lip »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- laideur
laideur
70,982 corpus weight
- lambeaux
lambeaux
70,981 corpus weight
- lip
lip
70,979 corpus weight
- localisées
localisées
70,978 corpus weight
- locative
locative
70,977 corpus weight
- logicielle
logicielle
70,976 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lip » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɪp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lip »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lip is neighbouring look-alikes ("Lu", "LR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈlɪp\. Frequency #29,022 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Lèvre, babine. Note d’usage : Très souvent employé au pluriel pour comprendre la lèvre supérieure et la lèvre inférieure.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lip in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "lo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lip, spelled L-I-P.
Definition
- 1Lèvre, babine. Note d’usage : Très souvent employé au pluriel pour comprendre la lèvre supérieure et la lèvre inférieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“All thanks for this good meal,” he said, licking his lips.
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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