lix
The verdict
“lix” is uncommon French (frequency #97,110 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,110
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cendre mouillée d’eau pour la lessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lix · lix · French
lix · rank #97,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,110
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loll
Nearest frequency peer: loll (+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 « lix »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Licht
Licht
2,895 corpus weight
- lithosphère
lithosphère
2,894 corpus weight
- lix
lix
2,891 corpus weight
- loll
loll
2,889 corpus weight
- lombardes
lombardes
2,888 corpus weight
- Loria
Loria
2,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lix » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #97,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lix is uncommon French at frequency #97,110 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cendre mouillée d’eau pour la lessive.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lix in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 lix, spelled L-I-X.
Definition
- 1Cendre mouillée d’eau pour la lessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
lix est cinis vel umor cineri admixtus: nam etiamnum id genus lixivium vocatur
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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