Isère
"isere" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Isère” is uncommon English (frequency #98,275 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,275
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-isere · Isère · English
Isère · rank #98,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,275
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH isotherm
Nearest frequency peer: isotherm (-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 “Isère”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ioannis
Ioannis
1,732 corpus weight
- irrelevancy
irrelevancy
1,731 corpus weight
- irritatingly
irritatingly
1,730 corpus weight
- isoniazid
isoniazid
1,728 corpus weight
- isotherm
isotherm
1,727 corpus weight
- Isère
Isère
1,726 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Isère” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Isère |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Isère” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Isère is uncommon English at frequency #98,275 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Isère has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Isère, from the Roman name, Latin Isara. The correct English form is Isère, spelled I-S-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
- 2A river in southeast France, flowing through the departments of Savoie, Isère and Drôme.
Etymology
From French Isère, from the Roman name, Latin Isara.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).