édile
\e.dil\
The verdict
“édile” is uncommon French (frequency #55,695 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,695
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magistrat romain qui avait inspection sur les édifices publics, sur les jeux, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edile · édile · French
édile · rank #55,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,695
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écouta
Nearest frequency peer: écouta (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « édile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éclectiques
éclectiques
44,309 corpus weight
- écorcher
écorcher
44,308 corpus weight
- écouta
écouta
44,307 corpus weight
- édile
édile
44,306 corpus weight
- énervez
énervez
44,304 corpus weight
- équivoques
équivoques
44,303 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « édile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | édile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.dil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « édile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
édile is uncommon French at frequency #55,695 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.dil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for édile, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is édile, spelled É-D-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Magistrat romain qui avait inspection sur les édifices publics, sur les jeux, etc.
- 2Élu municipal des grandes villes contemporaines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how édile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Édile curule.
Édile plébéien.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).