ido
\i.do\
The verdict
“ido” is uncommon French (frequency #69,912 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,912
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue à visée internationale, construite à partir de l’espéranto et inspirée d’une autre langue artificielle, l’idiom neutral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ido · ido · French
ido · rank #69,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,912
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH identifiait
Nearest frequency peer: identifiait (-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 « ido »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hémisphériq…
hémisphérique
30,091 corpus weight
- identifiait
identifiait
30,090 corpus weight
- ido
ido
30,089 corpus weight
- ids
ids
30,088 corpus weight
- iguanes
iguanes
30,087 corpus weight
- ihre
ihre
30,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ido » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ido |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.do\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ido » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ido is uncommon French at frequency #69,912 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue à visée internationale, construite à partir de l’espéranto et inspirée d’une autre langue artificielle, l’idiom neutral.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ido, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ido, spelled I-D-O.
Definition
- 1Langue à visée internationale, construite à partir de l’espéranto et inspirée d’une autre langue artificielle, l’idiom neutral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ido appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Inventeurs du mouvement perpétuel, explorateurs de bacilles inconnus, hommes-oiseaux ou hommes-poissons, fanatiques d’ido ou d’ortograf fonétik. alchimistes, pacifistes, utopistes, accourez tous! Déjà les demandes pleuvent, […].
L’ido a été créé par un comité incluant le Professeur Otto Jespersen, linguiste danois, et le Professeur Louis Couturat, mathématicien et philosophe français.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).