ille
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The verdict
“ille” is uncommon German (frequency #50,592 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,592
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personalpronomen: 3. Person Singular, Subjektform (Nominativ)
Corpus desk
Index DE-ille · ille · German
ille · rank #50,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,592
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH imperiale
Nearest frequency peer: imperiale (+3 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ille“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- iberischen
iberischen
49,414 corpus weight
- IDR
IDR
49,413 corpus weight
- ille
ille
49,409 corpus weight
- imperiale
imperiale
49,406 corpus weight
- imperialen
imperialen
49,405 corpus weight
- Impfpflicht
Impfpflicht
49,404 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ille“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ille“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ille is uncommon German at frequency #50,592 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ille in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ille, spelled I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen: 3. Person Singular, Subjektform (Nominativ)
- 2[1] er
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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