lue
\ly\
The verdict
“lue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,669) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,669
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de lu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lue · lue · French
lue · rank #16,669 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,669
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limitent
Nearest frequency peer: limitent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « lue »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- laisserait
laisserait
83,335 corpus weight
- librairies
librairies
83,334 corpus weight
- limitent
limitent
83,333 corpus weight
- lue
lue
83,332 corpus weight
- Lénine
Lénine
83,331 corpus weight
- manteaux
manteaux
83,330 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « lue » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | lue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ly\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « lue »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lue is neighbouring look-alikes ("lv", "lui", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ly\. Frequency #16,669 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de lu.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lue, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lv", "lui", "lus", 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 lue, spelled L-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de lu.
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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