lit
\li\
The verdict
“lit” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #771 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #771
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Meuble sur lequel on se couche pour dormir, généralement composé d’un cadre de bois ou de métal, qu’on garnit d’un sommier ou d’une paillasse, d’un ou plusieurs matelas, d’un traversin, d’un ou plu...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lit is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li\. Corpus data places it at rank #771 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for lit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lu", "LR", "lo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lit, spelled L-I-T.
Definition
- 1Meuble sur lequel on se couche pour dormir, généralement composé d’un cadre de bois ou de métal, qu’on garnit d’un sommier ou d’une paillasse, d’un ou plusieurs matelas, d’un traversin, d’un ou plusieurs oreillers, de draps et de couvertures.
- 2Tout lieu où l’on peut se coucher.
- 3Cadre de bois ou de métal, indépendamment de la literie.
- 4Literie.
- 5Couche régulière de matière quelconque.
- 6Chenal occupé par une rivière ou un fleuve.
- 7Jeux de l'amour que l'on fait allongé.
- 8Union ; mariage en rapport avec la naissance des enfants.
- 9Direction du vent, d’un courant.
- 10Dans un hôpital, ensemble des biens — locaux (chambre), lit, dispositifs médicaux — et des personnels permettant d’accueillir un patient. Place pour un patient dans un service hospitalier.
- 11Nombre de personnes pouvant être accueillies et traitées dans un service hospitalier.
- 12Dans une ville ou une région, capacité d'accueil des touristes.
This word in other languages
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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Using “lit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \li\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Lu” - see the side-by-side comparison. lit vs Lu
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.