illuminé
\i.ly.mi.ne\
The verdict
“illuminé” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,349
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est mis en valeur par de forts projecteurs, la nuit ; qui est fortement éclairé. Qui profite d’illuminations pour une fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illumine · illuminé · French
illuminé · rank #21,349 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH illicites
Nearest frequency peer: illicites (-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 « illuminé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hypertension
hypertension
78,655 corpus weight
- ignorez
ignorez
78,654 corpus weight
- illicites
illicites
78,653 corpus weight
- illuminé
illuminé
78,652 corpus weight
- illustrés
illustrés
78,651 corpus weight
- imperfectio…
imperfections
78,650 corpus weight
What this shows « illuminé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illuminé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ly.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illuminé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around illuminé (IPA \i.ly.mi.ne\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,349 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for illuminé, with forms such as "illmuiné", "illuimné", and "illumine". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "illuminer", "illuminés", "illuminée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is illuminé, spelled I-L-L-U-M-I-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est mis en valeur par de forts projecteurs, la nuit ; qui est fortement éclairé. Qui profite d’illuminations pour une fête.
- 2Éclairé fortement, transformé par la joie.
- 3Qui est éclairé de la lumière divine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illuminé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un château illuminé.
Les Champs-Élysées illuminés sont une attraction parisienne de Noël.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illmuiné
- illuimné
- illumine
- illuminné
- illumién
- illumminé
- illumnié
- ilulminé
- iluminé
- liluminé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illuminé - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).