illumina
\i.ly.mi.na\
The verdict
“illumina” is uncommon French (frequency #83,033 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,033
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de illuminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illumina · illumina · French
illumina · rank #83,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 142,603
- PHOTO-FINISH illuminait
Nearest frequency peer: illuminait (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “illumina”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ibo
ibo
16,970 corpus weight
- illumina
illumina
16,968 corpus weight
- illuminait
illuminait
16,967 corpus weight
- implantant
implantant
16,966 corpus weight
- impondérabl…
impondérables
16,965 corpus weight
- improductiv…
improductives
16,964 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “illumina” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illumina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ly.mi.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “illumina” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
illumina is uncommon French at frequency #83,033 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ly.mi.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de illuminer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for illumina in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is illumina, spelled I-L-L-U-M-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de illuminer.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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).
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.