illusionniste
\i.ly.zjɔ.nist\
The verdict
“illusionniste” is uncommon French (frequency #52,108 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,108
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prestidigitateur, créateur d’illusions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illusionniste · illusionniste · French
illusionniste · rank #52,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,108
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hibiscus
Nearest frequency peer: hibiscus (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « illusionniste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hells
hells
47,897 corpus weight
- herbacées
herbacées
47,896 corpus weight
- hibiscus
hibiscus
47,894 corpus weight
- illusionnis…
illusionniste
47,893 corpus weight
- immisce
immisce
47,891 corpus weight
- inadéquat
inadéquat
47,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illusionniste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illusionniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ly.zjɔ.nist\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #52,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illusionniste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illusionniste is uncommon French at frequency #52,108 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ly.zjɔ.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prestidigitateur, créateur d’illusions.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for illusionniste, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is illusionniste, spelled I-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prestidigitateur, créateur d’illusions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illusionniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas mal, cette disparition! Notre ami pourrait gagner beaucoup d'argent comme illusionniste...
Dès l'âge de dix ans le Père, ayant décelé chez moi un don d’illusionniste, m’emmena chaque soir avec lui.
This word in other languages
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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