ellui
French, pronoun/e.lɥi/
ellui is spelled E-L-L-U-I (5 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ellui is a French neuter pronoun meaning “(disjunctive of iel) them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pronom tonique de la troisième personne du singulier faisant référence à une personne non-binaire ou bien de…”.
What does ellui mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
neuter(disjunctive of iel) them
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Pronom tonique de la troisième personne du singulier faisant référence à une personne non-binaire ou bien de genre inconnu. Il correspond au néopronom clitique sujet iel.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ellui
- elleux plural
- eulles singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ellui?
- /e.lɥi/
- \ɛ.lɥi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ellui in French?
ellui appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).