illettrées
\i.le.tʁe\
The verdict
“illettrées” is uncommon French (frequency #88,741 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,741
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de illettré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illettrees · illettrées · French
illettrées · rank #88,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,741
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imagées
Nearest frequency peer: imagées (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « illettrées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- héraldiques
héraldiques
11,264 corpus weight
- identifiera
identifiera
11,262 corpus weight
- illettrées
illettrées
11,260 corpus weight
- imagées
imagées
11,259 corpus weight
- imites
imites
11,258 corpus weight
- immémorial
immémorial
11,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illettrées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illettrées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.le.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illettrées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illettrées is uncommon French at frequency #88,741 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.le.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de illettré.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for illettrées, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is illettrées, spelled I-L-L-E-T-T-R-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de illettré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how illettrées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des ensevelisseuses étaient pauvres et illettrées.
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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