ella
\ˈe.ʎa\
The verdict
“ella” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,531) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,531
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Elle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ella · ella · French
ella · rank #19,531 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,531
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embargo
Nearest frequency peer: embargo (+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 « ella »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- déterminante
déterminante
80,473 corpus weight
- dûment
dûment
80,472 corpus weight
- ella
ella
80,470 corpus weight
- embargo
embargo
80,469 corpus weight
- emmenée
emmenée
80,468 corpus weight
- enclin
enclin
80,467 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ella » 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 | ella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ˈe.ʎa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ella »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ella is neighbouring look-alikes ("élu", "eva", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ˈe.ʎa\. Frequency #19,531 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Elle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for ella, including "elal" and "lela". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "élu", "eva", "ena", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ella, spelled E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Elle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elal
- lela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ella - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ella", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).