lista
\lis.ta\
The verdict
“lista” is uncommon French (frequency #95,005 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,005
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lista · lista · French
lista · rank #95,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,005
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH linoléum
Nearest frequency peer: linoléum (-2 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 « lista »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- licencient
licencient
5,001 corpus weight
- Lillard
Lillard
5,000 corpus weight
- linoléum
linoléum
4,998 corpus weight
- lista
lista
4,996 corpus weight
- liver
liver
4,994 corpus weight
- LMNP
LMNP
4,993 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lis.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lista is uncommon French at frequency #95,005 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lister.".
lista has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lista, spelled L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de lister.
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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