IIe
\dø.zjɛm\
The verdict
“IIe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,004) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,004
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iie · IIe · French
IIe · rank #25,004 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,004
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hérétique
Nearest frequency peer: hérétique (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « IIe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- hood
hood
75,000 corpus weight
- horse
horse
74,999 corpus weight
- hérétique
hérétique
74,998 corpus weight
- IIe
IIe
74,997 corpus weight
- implant
implant
74,996 corpus weight
- improbables
improbables
74,995 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « IIe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | IIe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dø.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « IIe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IIe is neighbouring look-alikes ("il", "it", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \dø.zjɛm\. Frequency #25,004 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for IIe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "il", "it", "IP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is IIe, spelled I-I-E.
Definition
- 1Deuxième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IIe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qui ne connaît la fin du IIe et le commencement du IIIe livre de la République, où Platon condamne sévèrement comme contraires à la foi, aux bonnes mœurs, à la religion et à la vérité, les récits des poètes touchant les dieux...
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).