lys
French, noun/lis/
lys is spelled L-Y-S (3 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written French, the 13,986th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lys is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of lis (“lily”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de liliacées qui porte, sur une haute tige, des fleurs à trois pétales et trois sépales pétaloïdes”.
What does lys mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of lis (“lily”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de liliacées qui porte, sur une haute tige, des fleurs à trois pétales et trois sépales pétaloïdes. 2. Fleur du lys blanc. 3. Couleur très blanche de la fleur. 4. Fleur de lys.
prefix: 1. Élément formant rentrant dans la composition de nom scientifique impliquant une action de dissolution.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lys
- lysi-
- lyso-
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lys?
- /lis/
- \lis\
- [lis]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lys
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lys in French?
lys appears 3.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).