lisière
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,317
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
lisière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui termine des deux côtés la largeur d’une étoffe ; la partie où la trame s’est bouclée par le retour de la navette sur elle-même. Pronounced \li.zjɛʁ\. Often confused with lister and lisser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lisière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.zjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lisière is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.zjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,317 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for lisière, with forms such as "ilsière", "liisère", and "lisiere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "lister", "lisser", "lumière", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lisière, spelled L-I-S-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui termine des deux côtés la largeur d’une étoffe ; la partie où la trame s’est bouclée par le retour de la navette sur elle-même.
- 2Chausson de lisière.
- 3Cordon formé de deux liens ou deux rubans, qu’il a été d’usage d’attacher par derrière aux vêtements des petits enfants pour éviter le rampement et la chute quand ils commençaient à marcher.
- 4Liens, tutelle.
- 5Extrémité d’une contrée, d’un pays considéré comme limitrophe d’un autre.
- 6Limite d’un bois, d’une forêt, avec les zones déboisées.
- 7Limite des glaces d’avec la mer libre.
- 8À la limite entre deux domaines ou périodes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilsière,liisère,lisiere,lisirèe,lisièer,lisièrre,lissière,lisèire,llisière,lsiière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lisière
Misspelling Variants of "lisière"
Frequency rank: #22,317 in French
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