Which to use
“legs” and “lips” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,929
- “legs” frequency rank
- #46,867
- “lips” frequency rank
- 63796
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | legs | lips |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Don fait par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté. | Pluriel de lip. |
Where the eye mixes legs and lips
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. legs and lips follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: legs vs lips
A purely visual mix-up. legs (\lɛ\) and lips (\ˈlɪps\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63796, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
legs is recorded at frequency rank #16,929, classified as anoun, pronounced \lɛ\. lips is at rank #46,867, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ˈlɪps\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 63796, this pair ranks #80,180 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of legs vs lips
Shared letters: ls. Private to "legs": eg. Private to "lips": ip.
"legs" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "lips" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "legs" and "lips" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "legs" vs "lips" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "legs" and "lips" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "legs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "lips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #80,180 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "legs" and "lips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lep vs lips". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #80,180 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.