illicéité
\i.li.se.i.te\
The verdict
“illicéité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère illicite (de quelque chose).
Corpus desk
Index FR-illiceite · illicéité · French
illicéité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illicéité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.li.se.i.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illicéité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illicéité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.li.se.i.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère illicite (de quelque chose).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for illicéité, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is illicéité, spelled I-L-L-I-C-É-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère illicite (de quelque chose).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illicéité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans son jugement, le TGI de Créteil, qui a reconnu à YouTube le statut d'«hébergeur», a notamment retenu que ces extraits avaient été maintenus «sans l’autorisation [de l’INA], après que leur illicéité eut été signalée».
Selon la directive de 2000, [les hébergeurs] sont en principe responsables des contenus mis en ligne par les internautes dans leurs infrastructures si, alertés de leur illicéité (une vidéo par exemple), ils choisissent de les conserver.
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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.