illettrée
\i.le.tʁe\
The verdict
“illettrée” is uncommon French (frequency #76,669 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,669
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme qui ne connaît pas ses lettres, qui ne sait ni lire ni écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illettree · illettrée · French
illettrée · rank #76,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,669
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 142,603
- PHOTO-FINISH illogiques
Nearest frequency peer: illogiques (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “illettrée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hyperglycém…
hyperglycémie
23,336 corpus weight
- hégémoniques
hégémoniques
23,334 corpus weight
- illettrée
illettrée
23,332 corpus weight
- illogiques
illogiques
23,331 corpus weight
- imager
imager
23,330 corpus weight
- immunologiq…
immunologique
23,329 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “illettrée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illettrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.le.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “illettrée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
illettrée is uncommon French at frequency #76,669 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.le.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui ne connaît pas ses lettres, qui ne sait ni lire ni écrire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for illettrée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is illettrée, spelled I-L-L-E-T-T-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui ne connaît pas ses lettres, qui ne sait ni lire ni écrire.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "illettrée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.