idole
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,070
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
idole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure, statue représentant une divinité qui fait l'objet d'une adoration religieuse, précisément, une idolâtrie. Pronounced \i.dɔl\. Often confused with ile and isle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dɔl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for idole is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.dɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,070 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for idole, with forms such as "diole", "iddole", and "idloe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "ile", "isle", "isolé", 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 idole, spelled I-D-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figure, statue représentant une divinité qui fait l'objet d'une adoration religieuse, précisément, une idolâtrie.
- 2Divinité que sa statue représente.
- 3Personne adulée, riche, puissante, etc, à qui on prodigue les honneurs, les louanges.
- 4Ce qui fait le sujet de l’affection, de la passion de quelqu’un.
- 5Se dit d’une personne qui se tient à ne rien faire, passive comme une statue.
- 6Ampullaire, coquille univalve, aussi connue sous le nom de dieu manitou ou manitou, mollusque gastéropode d’eau douce (Pomacea urceus, anciennement Ampullarius urceus).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: diole,iddole,idloe,idoel,idolle,iodle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for idole
Misspelling Variants of "idole"
Frequency rank: #11,070 in French
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