icelle
\i.sɛl\
The verdict
“icelle” is uncommon French (frequency #74,074 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a determiner. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,074
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-icelle · icelle · French
icelle · rank #74,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,074
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ICT
Nearest frequency peer: ICT (+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 « icelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- huart
huart
25,931 corpus weight
- Hussain
Hussain
25,930 corpus weight
- hâtez
hâtez
25,929 corpus weight
- icelle
icelle
25,927 corpus weight
- ICT
ICT
25,926 corpus weight
- illa
illa
25,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « icelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | icelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \i.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « icelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
icelle is uncommon French at frequency #74,074 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as adeterminer, transcribed \i.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cette.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for icelle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is icelle, spelled I-C-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Cette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how icelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et est icelle dame âgée de quinze ou seize ans, ou environ, grande, bien faite et formée de tous membres; plus belle d’elle on ne sçauroit souhaiter.
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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