illo
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The verdict
“illo” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - [1] Personalpronomen: 3. Person Singular Neutrum, Subjektform (Nominativ)
Corpus desk
Index DE-illo · illo · German
illo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „illo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
illo is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as apronoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for illo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is illo, spelled I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1[1] Personalpronomen: 3. Person Singular Neutrum, Subjektform (Nominativ)
- 2[2] Demonstrativpronomen: 3. Person Singular Neutrum, Subjektform (Nominativ)
- 3[1] für Sachen und Tiere: es; im Deutschen je nach grammatischem Geschlecht der Sache oder des Tieres auch: er, sie
- 4[2] für Sachen und Tiere: das Entferntere von zweien; jenes (jene, jener)
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.