liston
\lis.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“liston” is uncommon French (frequency #88,837 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,837
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite bande qui porte la devise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liston · liston · French
liston · rank #88,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,837
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH linguistic
Nearest frequency peer: linguistic (-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 « liston »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- liminaires
liminaires
11,168 corpus weight
- limousins
limousins
11,167 corpus weight
- linguistic
linguistic
11,165 corpus weight
- liston
liston
11,164 corpus weight
- litières
litières
11,162 corpus weight
- loader
loader
11,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « liston » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liston |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lis.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « liston » en français
Rare enough to double-check
liston is uncommon French at frequency #88,837 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lis.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for liston, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is liston, spelled L-I-S-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petite bande qui porte la devise.
- 2Longue bande de bois, ou d’un matériau élastique, protectrice qui, au dessus de la ligne de flottaison, s'étire sur toute la longueur de la coque d’une embarcation ou d'un navire.
- 3Bande de couleur.
- 4Lamelle de bois, copeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liston appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les devises des armoiries se mettent souvent dans des listons autour de l'écu.
La coque est grise avec des sabords peints en noir et un liston rouge à la flottaison, comme tous les long-courriers de la Compagnie Bordes que j’ai vu pourrir dans le canal de l’Erdre à Nantes avant la guerre, quand j’étais gamin.
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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