illusionary
"illusionary" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“illusionary” is uncommon English (frequency #94,984 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,984
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-illusionary · illusionary · English
illusionary · rank #94,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,984
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH immutability
Nearest frequency peer: immutability (+1 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 “illusionary”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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icehouse
5,025 corpus weight
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idiocracy
5,024 corpus weight
- Iftikhar
Iftikhar
5,022 corpus weight
- illusionary
illusionary
5,017 corpus weight
- immutability
immutability
5,016 corpus weight
- indispensib…
indispensible
5,011 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “illusionary” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illusionary |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “illusionary” in English
Rare enough to double-check
illusionary is uncommon English at frequency #94,984 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for illusionary in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From illusion + -ary. The correct English form is illusionary, spelled I-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Illusory; pertaining to an illusion, or of the nature of an illusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how illusionary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is all illusionary today — the fantasy of cowboyism, the western Yippee Syndrome of spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle, of hats as large as Bangalore parasols, of boots smeared with the residue of cowlots […]
Etymology
From illusion + -ary.
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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