ide

\id\

/\id\/ noun

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The verdict

“ide” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,577) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#23,577
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson rouge d’eau douce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ide · ide · French

ide · rank #23,577 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,577
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hyundai

Nearest frequency peer: Hyundai (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ide »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « ide » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ide vs il
33% similar
ide vs ii
33% similar
ide vs it
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ide
PropertyValue
Headwordide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\id\
Letters3
Frequency rank#23,577
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ide »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.idese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Hyundai » (#23,576), « immo » (#23,578), « humiliant » (#23,575). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « ide » est au #23,577. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ide is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "ii", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \id\. Frequency #23,577 among 3,561 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ide, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "ii", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ide, spelled I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poisson rouge d’eau douce.
  2. 2
    Synonyme de ide mélanote.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’ide vit en troupes et se tient généralement à la surface. Il aime les courants rapides, les barrages, les bas-fonds sablonneux, et fraie en Avril et Mai.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ide"?
"ide" is spelled I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \id\.
What does "ide" mean?
As a noun, "ide" means: Poisson rouge d’eau douce.
What words are commonly confused with "ide"?
"ide" is commonly confused with "il", "ii", "it". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ide" is \id\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ide" come from?
"ide" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ire#23,590gal#23,563keV#23,595fia#23,552

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list