illicéité
French, noun/i.li.se.i.te/
illicéité is spelled I-L-L-I-C-É-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Illicéité is a French feminine noun meaning “illicitness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère illicite (de quelque chose)”.
What does illicéité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineillicitness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère illicite (de quelque chose).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of illicéité
- illicéités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce illicéité?
- /i.li.se.i.te/
- \i.li.se.i.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is illicéité in French?
illicéité appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).