eller
The verdict
“eller” is uncommon French (frequency #63,712 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,712
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eller · eller · French
eller · rank #63,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,712
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elke
Nearest frequency peer: Elke (-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 « eller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effrontée
effrontée
36,293 corpus weight
- egal
egal
36,292 corpus weight
- Elke
Elke
36,290 corpus weight
- eller
eller
36,289 corpus weight
- emm
emm
36,288 corpus weight
- empilées
empilées
36,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eller is uncommon French at frequency #63,712 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aconjunction. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for eller, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is eller, spelled E-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ou.
- 2(Quelques fois) À.
- 3Ni.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Priset lämnas åt en lyrisk eller episk eller dramatisk skald.
Dö eller segra.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).