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ile

/aɪl/noun

ile is spelled I-L-E: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ile means “Alternative form of ail (“awn”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ile is %iles.

How many letters and syllables are in ile?

Letters3: I-L-E
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 34,504th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is ile?

Ile appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce ile?

  • /aɪl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ile.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with ile

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

ile vs isle0 B

Also written: aisle, isle.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with ile?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ile.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: lie, lei.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of ile

  • %iles plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does ile mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of ail (“awn”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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