liseur
\li.zœʁ\
The verdict
“liseur” is uncommon French (frequency #98,195 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,195
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui se livre passionnément à la lecture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liseur · liseur · French
liseur · rank #98,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,195
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH linière
Nearest frequency peer: linière (-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 « liseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lineker
Lineker
1,809 corpus weight
- linguistics
linguistics
1,808 corpus weight
- linière
linière
1,807 corpus weight
- liseur
liseur
1,806 corpus weight
- lissant
lissant
1,805 corpus weight
- logea
logea
1,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « liseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « liseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
liseur is uncommon French at frequency #98,195 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.zœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
liseur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is liseur, spelled L-I-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui se livre passionnément à la lecture.
- 2Ouvrier chargé du lisage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Connaissez-vous, monsieur le liseur, me demanda-t-il, ce vers de Paul Desjardins : Les bois sont déjà noirs, le ciel est encor bleu.
Toute l’action, dans la lecture, est le fait de celui qui lit. Voilà pourquoi les liseurs les plus attentifs, les moins lassables, se recrutent parmi les gens habituellement environnés de repos, les gens qui ne voient pas beaucoup remuer le monde autour d’eux.
Synonyms
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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