œillade
\œ.jad\
The verdict
“œillade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coup d’œil jeté furtivement, à dessein et avec une expression marquée, en signe de tendresse, de bienveillance ou de connivence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | œillade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œ.jad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “œillade” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
œillade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \œ.jad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for œillade in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is œillade, spelled Œ-I-L-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Coup d’œil jeté furtivement, à dessein et avec une expression marquée, en signe de tendresse, de bienveillance ou de connivence.
- 2Nom donné à divers cépages : œillade noire, œillade rose, œillade de Conzieu, œillade de Bouschet, qui sont des espèces à part entière ; œillade blanche synonyme d'araignan ou parfois de clairette blanche, œillade musquée synonyme de muscat de Hambourg.
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.
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Using “œillade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Œ-I-L-L-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \œ.jad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.