iad
The verdict
“iad” is uncommon French (frequency #86,804 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,804
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom disjoint de la troisième personne du pluriel : eux, elles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iad · iad · French
iad · rank #86,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,804
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH iels
Nearest frequency peer: iels (+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 « iad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hydrophobe
hydrophobe
13,201 corpus weight
- hydrure
hydrure
13,200 corpus weight
- hypnotisant
hypnotisant
13,199 corpus weight
- iad
iad
13,197 corpus weight
- iels
iels
13,196 corpus weight
- illustrera
illustrera
13,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « iad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « iad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
iad is uncommon French at frequency #86,804 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronom disjoint de la troisième personne du pluriel : eux, elles.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for iad, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is iad, spelled I-A-D.
Definition
- 1Pronom disjoint de la troisième personne du pluriel : eux, elles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how iad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ní fhaca mé iad.
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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