lirais
\li.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“lirais” is uncommon French (frequency #52,794 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,794
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de lire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lirais · lirais · French
lirais · rank #52,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,794
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lison
Nearest frequency peer: Lison (+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 « lirais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lesueur
Lesueur
47,209 corpus weight
- lirais
lirais
47,207 corpus weight
- Lison
Lison
47,206 corpus weight
- lobbyisme
lobbyisme
47,205 corpus weight
- Lodève
Lodève
47,204 corpus weight
- logarithme
logarithme
47,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lirais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lirais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lirais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lirais is uncommon French at frequency #52,794 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \li.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
lirais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lirais, spelled L-I-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de lire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de lire.
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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