lyse
\liz\
The verdict
“lyse” is uncommon French (frequency #58,738 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,738
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désagrégation de substances ou d’organismes par l’action d’un agent physique, chimique ou biologique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lyse · lyse · French
lyse · rank #58,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,738
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH macronistes
Nearest frequency peer: macronistes (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lyse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Longjumeau
Longjumeau
41,266 corpus weight
- loot
loot
41,265 corpus weight
- lyse
lyse
41,263 corpus weight
- macronistes
macronistes
41,262 corpus weight
- mags
mags
41,261 corpus weight
- mailing
mailing
41,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lyse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lyse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \liz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lyse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lyse is uncommon French at frequency #58,738 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désagrégation de substances ou d’organismes par l’action d’un agent physique, chimique ou biologique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lyse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lyse, spelled L-Y-S-E.
Definition
- 1Désagrégation de substances ou d’organismes par l’action d’un agent physique, chimique ou biologique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lyse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains d’entre eux, les phages virulents, se multiplient dès leur entrée dans la bactérie et entraînent sa lyse.
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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