ici
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#153
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ici is anFrenchadv. It means: Il marque la proximité immédiate dans l’espace par rapport à soi. Pronounced \i.si\. It ranks #153 in French word frequency. Often confused with il and ii.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ici |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \i.si\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ici is 3 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #153 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ici in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "ii", "it", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ici, spelled I-C-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Il marque la proximité immédiate dans l’espace par rapport à soi.
- 2Dans ce pays-ci, dans cette ville-ci, etc., par opposition à un autre pays, à une autre ville, désignés quelquefois par l’adverbe là-bas.
- 3(là … ici) Il marque la différence des lieux, sans rapport de distance. Dans ce cas, il est corrélatif de l’adverbe là.
- 4(ici … là) Il marque une simple opposition entre deux actions faites à des moments différents.
- 5Il marque un point de départ dans le temps, dans un discours, dans une narration, dans un livre, etc.
- 6Il marque le moment présent.
- 7Il indique lors de la traduction d’un mot étranger que celle-ci est valable uniquement dans ce contexte.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #153 in French
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