élias
\e.lja\
The verdict
“élias” is uncommon French (frequency #88,255 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,255
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de élier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elias · élias · French
élias · rank #88,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH égalitariste
Nearest frequency peer: égalitariste (-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 « élias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écœurée
écœurée
11,749 corpus weight
- éditos
éditos
11,748 corpus weight
- égalitariste
égalitariste
11,747 corpus weight
- élias
élias
11,746 corpus weight
- éliminait
éliminait
11,745 corpus weight
- éon
éon
11,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.lja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élias is uncommon French at frequency #88,255 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.lja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de élier.".
élias doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is élias, spelled É-L-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de élier.
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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