ela
\ˈɛla\
The verdict
“ela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,314) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,314
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité de loisir, amateur, loisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ela · ela · French
ela · rank #47,314 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,314
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH efforçant
Nearest frequency peer: efforçant (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ela »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dévolution
dévolution
52,690 corpus weight
- Easter
Easter
52,689 corpus weight
- efforçant
efforçant
52,688 corpus weight
- ela
ela
52,687 corpus weight
- emojis
emojis
52,686 corpus weight
- encéphalite
encéphalite
52,685 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ela » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛla\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ela »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ela is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "en", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈɛla\. Frequency #47,314 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Activité de loisir, amateur, loisir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ela in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ela, spelled E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Activité de loisir, amateur, loisir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).