illa
\ˈiʎə\
The verdict
“illa” is uncommon French (frequency #74,077 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,077
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illa · illa · French
illa · rank #74,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,077
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ICT
Nearest frequency peer: ICT (-2 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 « illa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- icelle
icelle
25,927 corpus weight
- ICT
ICT
25,926 corpus weight
- illa
illa
25,924 corpus weight
- imitait
imitait
25,922 corpus weight
- impalpable
impalpable
25,921 corpus weight
- imperméabil…
imperméabilité
25,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈiʎə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illa is uncommon French at frequency #74,077 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈiʎə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for illa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is illa, spelled I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Île.
- 2Pâté de maisons.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).