Illinois
\i.li.nwa\
The verdict
“Illinois” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,774
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre d’un peuple amérindien vivant au sud des Grands Lacs dans la haute vallée du Mississippi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illinois · Illinois · French
Illinois · rank #18,774 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,774
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hégémonie
Nearest frequency peer: hégémonie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Illinois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
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81,230 corpus weight
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Huawei
81,229 corpus weight
- hégémonie
hégémonie
81,228 corpus weight
- Illinois
Illinois
81,227 corpus weight
- imaginons
imaginons
81,226 corpus weight
- imminent
imminent
81,225 corpus weight
What this shows « Illinois » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Illinois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.li.nwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Illinois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Illinois (IPA \i.li.nwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,774 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Membre d’un peuple amérindien vivant au sud des Grands Lacs dans la haute vallée du Mississippi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Illinois, with forms such as "ililnois", "ilinois", and "illinios". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Illinois, spelled I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Membre d’un peuple amérindien vivant au sud des Grands Lacs dans la haute vallée du Mississippi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Illinois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Illinois parlaient plusieurs dialectes de la langue miami-illinois qui fait partie de la famille des langues algonquines.
Le pays des Illinois est encore arrosé par d’autres grandes rivieres. […] Dans un si grand pays, on ne connoît que trois villages, dont l’un peuplé de huit ou neuf cent Illinois, est à plus de 50 lieues du second.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ililnois
- ilinois
- illinios
- illinnois
- illinoiss
- illinosi
- illionis
- illniois
- lilinois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Illinois - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).