idoine
\i.dwan\
The verdict
“idoine” is uncommon French (frequency #56,025 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,025
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre ou approprié à quelque chose, qui convient parfaitement à une situation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idoine · idoine · French
idoine · rank #56,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH idle
Nearest frequency peer: idle (-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 « idoine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hétérosexue…
hétérosexuelle
43,979 corpus weight
- hôtelières
hôtelières
43,978 corpus weight
- idle
idle
43,977 corpus weight
- idoine
idoine
43,976 corpus weight
- idolâtre
idolâtre
43,975 corpus weight
- impulser
impulser
43,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « idoine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idoine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.dwan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « idoine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
idoine is uncommon French at frequency #56,025 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.dwan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for idoine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is idoine, spelled I-D-O-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre ou approprié à quelque chose, qui convient parfaitement à une situation.
- 2Qui est propre à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how idoine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis 2005, toutes les sociétés d'autoroutes françaises ont équipé leurs gares de péage de voies réservées au télépéage, reconnaissables en pratique par une signalétique idoine.
Or, sont idoines les mots destinés à signifier les choses auxquelles ils s'appliquent. C'est pourquoi, ainsi que nous l'avons établi (evictum) à l'instant, s'il ne faut pas utiliser plus de mots que ceux qui suffisent à signifier à autrui les concepts de notre esprit.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).