idylles
\i.dil\
The verdict
“idylles” is uncommon French (frequency #85,810 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,810
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de idylle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idylles · idylles · French
idylles · rank #85,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,810
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hévéa
Nearest frequency peer: hévéa (-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 « idylles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hydrolienne
hydrolienne
14,196 corpus weight
- hypokhâgne
hypokhâgne
14,195 corpus weight
- hésiteraient
hésiteraient
14,193 corpus weight
- hévéa
hévéa
14,192 corpus weight
- idylles
idylles
14,191 corpus weight
- immangeable
immangeable
14,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « idylles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idylles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « idylles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
idylles is uncommon French at frequency #85,810 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.dil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de idylle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for idylles in our index, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is idylles, spelled I-D-Y-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de idylle.
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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