Lyon
\li.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“Lyon” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,004
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, située dans la métropole de Lyon (69M), en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, autrefois située dans le département du Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lyon · Lyon · French
Lyon · rank #1,004 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,004
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lieux
Nearest frequency peer: lieux (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lyon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- F
F
99,000 corpus weight
- lettre
lettre
98,999 corpus weight
- lieux
lieux
98,998 corpus weight
- Lyon
Lyon
98,997 corpus weight
- parole
parole
98,996 corpus weight
- pieds
pieds
98,995 corpus weight
What this shows « Lyon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Lyon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \li.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lyon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Lyon (IPA \li.jɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,004 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, située dans la métropole de Lyon (69M), en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, autrefois située dans le département du Rhône.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lyon, with forms such as "llyon", "loyn", and "lyno". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lys", "lyre", "Lyons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Lyon, spelled L-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, située dans la métropole de Lyon (69M), en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, autrefois située dans le département du Rhône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Lyon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux origines du nom de Lyon, Lugdunum, une légende : la cité aurait été fondée par Atepomaros, un roi déchu, et son frère Momoros, un druide celte, qui auraient obéi à une prédiction leur commandant de construire une ville en bordure de la Saöne. Une nuée de corbeaux, oiseaux du dieu celte Lug, les aurait alors enveloppés : ils auraient décidé de nommer l…
Aucune classe d’hommes n’alimenta de plus de victimes les bûchers du moyen âge. Les Vaudois d’Arras eurent leurs martyrs, comme ceux de Lyon.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llyon
- loyn
- lyno
- lyonn
- lyyon
- ylon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lyon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).