ilex de Pernambouc
The verdict
“ilex de Pernambouc” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Arbre du Brésil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ilex de Pernambouc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ilex de Pernambouc” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ilex de Pernambouc is 18 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arbre du Brésil.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ilex de Pernambouc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ilex de Pernambouc, spelled I-L-E-X- -D-E- -P-E-R-N-A-M-B-O-U-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arbre du Brésil.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Cite this page
Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:
PlainSpell, “ilex de Pernambouc, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/ilex-de-pernambouc
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "ilex de Pernambouc"?
What does "ilex de Pernambouc" mean?
What language does "ilex de Pernambouc" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “ilex de Pernambouc”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-L-E-X- -D-E- -P-E-R-N-A-M-B-O-U-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter I in our French index: