Ikéa
\i.ke.a\
The verdict
“Ikéa” is uncommon French (frequency #65,221 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,221
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise spécialisée dans la conception et la vente de détail de mobilier et objets de décoration prêts à poser ou à monter en kit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ikea · Ikéa · French
Ikéa · rank #65,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,221
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH idéalisation
Nearest frequency peer: idéalisation (-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 « Ikéa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hyperinflat…
hyperinflation
34,784 corpus weight
- hypoxie
hypoxie
34,783 corpus weight
- héroïquement
héroïquement
34,782 corpus weight
- idéalisation
idéalisation
34,781 corpus weight
- Ikéa
Ikéa
34,780 corpus weight
- impersonnel…
impersonnelle
34,777 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ikéa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ikéa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.ke.a\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ikéa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ikéa is uncommon French at frequency #65,221 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \i.ke.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Entreprise spécialisée dans la conception et la vente de détail de mobilier et objets de décoration prêts à poser ou à monter en kit.".
Ikéa has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ikéa, spelled I-K-É-A.
Definition
- 1Entreprise spécialisée dans la conception et la vente de détail de mobilier et objets de décoration prêts à poser ou à monter en kit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ikéa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas besoin d’un kit ikéa de l’indignation.
Le détective privé qui travaillait pour l’entreprise Ikea, mise en examen pour l’espionnage de ses salariés, cachetonnait aussi chez Quick.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).