illisibilité
\i(l).li.zi.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“illisibilité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est matériellement illisible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illisibilite · illisibilité · French
illisibilité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | illisibilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i(l).li.zi.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illisibilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illisibilité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \i(l).li.zi.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for illisibilité in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is illisibilité, spelled I-L-L-I-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est matériellement illisible.
- 2Caractère de ce qui est incompréhensible, confus, embrouillé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illisibilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette erreur s’explique par l’illisibilité du document.
Prenant acte de la diffusion d’une « écriture inclusive » qui prétend s’imposer comme norme, l’Académie française élève à l’unanimité une solennelle mise en garde. La démultiplication des marques orthographiques et syntaxiques qu’elle induit aboutit à une langue désunie, disparate dans son expression, créant une confusion qui confine à l’illisibilité.
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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.