likervsliséeTell them apart

Which to use

“liker” and “lisée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,193
“liker” frequency rank
#17,181
“lisée” frequency rank
66374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature liker lisée
Definition Montrer son soutien, son approbation, son lien, son appréciation, ou bien le fait d’aimer un site ou quelque chose en cliquant sur un bouton virtuel ad'hoc portant un nom éponyme de type I like (« j’aime »). Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe liser.

Where the eye mixes liker and lisée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
liker
5 ch
lisée

Look-alike desk: liker vs lisée

A purely visual mix-up. liker (\laj.ke\) and lisée (\li.ze\) 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 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

liker is recorded at frequency rank #49,193, classified as averb, pronounced \laj.ke\. lisée is at rank #17,181, tagged as averb, pronounced \li.ze\.

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 66374, this pair ranks #68,103 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of liker vs lisée

Shared letters: eil. Private to "liker": kr. Private to "lisée": .

"liker" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "lisée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • likerilker · liekr · likerr · likker · likre · lkier · lliker

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "liker" and "lisée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\laj.ke\ versus \li.ze\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "liker" or "lisée" show up more?
"lisée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,181 in our French list, against #49,193 for "liker". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "liker" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lisée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,103 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "liker" and "lisée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "liker vs limes". 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 #68,103 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list