illusoire
\i(l).ly.zwaʁ\
The verdict
“illusoire” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,464
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est captieux, qui tend à tromper sous une fausse apparence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illusoire · illusoire · French
illusoire · rank #20,464 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,464
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Hyères
Nearest frequency peer: Hyères (-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 « illusoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- homard
homard
79,540 corpus weight
- hon
hon
79,539 corpus weight
- Hyères
Hyères
79,538 corpus weight
- illusoire
illusoire
79,537 corpus weight
- immigré
immigré
79,536 corpus weight
- indexation
indexation
79,534 corpus weight
What this shows « illusoire » 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 | illusoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i(l).ly.zwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illusoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around illusoire (IPA \i(l).ly.zwaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,464 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for illusoire, with forms such as "illsuoire", "illuosire", and "illusiore". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "illustre", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is illusoire, spelled I-L-L-U-S-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est captieux, qui tend à tromper sous une fausse apparence.
- 2Qui relève de l’illusion, qui est sans effet, qui ne repose sur rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illusoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une proposition illusoire. - Contrat illusoire.
Il suffira d’exposer en bref ici comment, ayant constamment établi pour principe de tous ses arguments, que l’acte du 1ᵉʳ avril est inepte, insensé, faux, illusoire et nul, une fausse apparence, en un mot rien, mon adversaire écharpe à plaisir ce pauvre acte ; et cela tant que le peuvent endurer soixante-douze pages in-quarto, bien serrées, sans interlign…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illsuoire
- illuosire
- illusiore
- illusoier
- illusoirre
- illusorie
- illussoire
- ilulsoire
- ilusoire
- lilusoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illusoire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).