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illusoire

French, adjective/i.ly.zwaʁ/

illusoire is spelled I-L-L-U-S-O-I-R-E (9 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Illusoire is a French adjective meaning “illusory” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est captieux, qui tend à tromper sous une fausse apparence”.

What does illusoire mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    illusory

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est captieux, qui tend à tromper sous une fausse apparence. 2. Qui relève de l’illusion, qui est sans effet, qui ne repose sur rien.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of illusoire

  • illusoires plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce illusoire?

  • /i.ly.zwaʁ/
  • \i(l).ly.zwaʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to illusoire

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is illusoire in French?

illusoire appears 2.0 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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