Eloi
/ˈiːlɔɪ/
"eloi" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Eloi” is uncommon English (frequency #84,208 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,208
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eloi · Eloi · English
Eloi · rank #84,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,208
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Emme
Nearest frequency peer: Emme (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Eloi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- effervescen…
effervescence
15,800 corpus weight
- effete
effete
15,799 corpus weight
- elastomeric
elastomeric
15,797 corpus weight
- Eloi
Eloi
15,793 corpus weight
- Emme
Emme
15,791 corpus weight
- emptor
emptor
15,790 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Eloi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eloi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈiːlɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Eloi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Eloi is uncommon English at frequency #84,208 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈiːlɔɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name.".
Eloi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”). The correct English form is Eloi, spelled E-L-O-I.
Definition
- 1A male given name.
Etymology
From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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