illisible
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,994
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
illisible is anFrenchadj. It means: Qu’on ne peut lire ou qu’on ne lit que très difficilement. Pronounced \i(l).li.zibl\. Often confused with invisible and illisibles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illisible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \i(l).li.zibl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for illisible is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i(l).li.zibl\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,994 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for illisible, with forms such as "ililsible", "ilisible", and "illiisble". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "invisible", "illisibles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is illisible, spelled I-L-L-I-S-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qu’on ne peut lire ou qu’on ne lit que très difficilement.
- 2Dont la lecture n’est pas supportable.
- 3Qui est incompréhensible, dont on ne parvient pas à saisir la logique ou la cohérence ; confus, embrouillé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ililsible,ilisible,illiisble,illisbile,illisibble,illisibel,illisiblle,illisilbe,illissible,illsiible,lilisible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for illisible
Misspelling Variants of "illisible"
Frequency rank: #28,994 in French
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