ie
\je\
The verdict
“ie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,068) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,068
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neuvième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, е.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ie · ie · French
ie · rank #7,068 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,068
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH honoré
Nearest frequency peer: honoré (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ie”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- habiller
habiller
92,936 corpus weight
- habituel
habituel
92,935 corpus weight
- honoré
honoré
92,934 corpus weight
- ie
ie
92,933 corpus weight
- if
if
92,932 corpus weight
- imposition
imposition
92,931 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ie” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \je\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “ie” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ie is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "ii", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \je\. Frequency #7,068 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Neuvième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, е.".
ie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "ii", "it", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ie, spelled I-E.
Definition
- 1Neuvième lettre de l’alphabet cyrillique, е.
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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- "ie" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "il". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #7,068 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.