ielle
French, pronoun/jɛl/
ielle is spelled I-E-L-L-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written French, the 308,115th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ielle is a French neuter pronoun meaning “alternative form of iel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cas régime de la troisième personne du singulier sujet féminin, alle/a’”.
What does ielle mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
neuteralternative form of iel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Cas régime de la troisième personne du singulier sujet féminin, alle/a’. 2. Ajout emphatique au sujet féminin, alle/a’.
pronoun: 1. Pronom de la troisième personne du singulier permettant de désigner les personnes, sans distinction de genre. Variante de iel
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ielle
- ielles plural
- yelle
- iel
- yel
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ielle?
- /jɛl/
- /i.ɛl/
- \jɛl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ielle in French?
ielle appears about once in every 98 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).