ila
The verdict
“ila” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,433) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,433
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue bantoue parlée en Zambie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ila · ila · French
ila · rank #36,433 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,433
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hémorragies
Nearest frequency peer: hémorragies (-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 « ila »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- housewives
housewives
63,571 corpus weight
- hémorragies
hémorragies
63,569 corpus weight
- ila
ila
63,568 corpus weight
- Ilya
Ilya
63,567 corpus weight
- ima
ima
63,566 corpus weight
- imposa
imposa
63,565 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ila » 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 | ila |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ila »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ila is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "IP", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #36,433 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Langue bantoue parlée en Zambie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ila in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "IP", "ix", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ila, spelled I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Langue bantoue parlée en Zambie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ila appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La forme -kaintu qui est bien attestée en zones A, B, C, H/K et R et qui possède des attestations isolées en ila, tonga et digo peut avoir connu une expansion plus grande mais avoir régressé en raison de la concurrence de formes comme mwana(mu)kazi.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ila", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).