lisseur
\li.sœʁ\
The verdict
“lisseur” is uncommon French (frequency #54,696 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,696
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui lisse la surface d’un papier ou d’une étoffe pour la rendre brillante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lisseur · lisseur · French
lisseur · rank #54,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,696
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH livrons
Nearest frequency peer: livrons (+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 « lisseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ley
ley
45,308 corpus weight
- liberticides
liberticides
45,307 corpus weight
- lisseur
lisseur
45,305 corpus weight
- livrons
livrons
45,304 corpus weight
- loach
loach
45,303 corpus weight
- locutions
locutions
45,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lisseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lisseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lisseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lisseur is uncommon French at frequency #54,696 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui lisse la surface d’un papier ou d’une étoffe pour la rendre brillante.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lisseur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lisseur, spelled L-I-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui lisse la surface d’un papier ou d’une étoffe pour la rendre brillante.
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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