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
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Membre d’un peuple amérindien vivant au sud des Grands Lacs dans la haute vallée du Mississippi.
| 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) |
Where “Illinois” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Illinois (IPA \i.li.nwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,774 among 142,603 “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.
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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Using “Illinois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \i.li.nwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.