eille
\ɛj\
The verdict
“eille” is uncommon French (frequency #81,986 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,986
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de heille. Interjection pour attirer l’attention sur quelque chose qui choque ou perturbe le locuteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eille · eille · French
eille · rank #81,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,986
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elam
Nearest frequency peer: Elam (+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 « eille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détendeur
détendeur
18,020 corpus weight
- effervescen…
effervescents
18,017 corpus weight
- eille
eille
18,015 corpus weight
- Elam
Elam
18,014 corpus weight
- elme
elme
18,011 corpus weight
- embellis
embellis
18,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɛj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eille is uncommon French at frequency #81,986 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de heille. Interjection pour attirer l’attention sur quelque chose qui choque ou perturbe le locuteur.".
eille has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is eille, spelled E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de heille. Interjection pour attirer l’attention sur quelque chose qui choque ou perturbe le locuteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eille! Eille! les jeunes! Qu’est-ce que vous faites là?
Qu’il se dira: «Eille, c’ta moi que ça parle, ça»?
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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