illustra
\i.lys.tʁa\
The verdict
“illustra” is uncommon French (frequency #66,002 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,002
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de illustrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illustra · illustra · French
illustra · rank #66,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,002
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IFC
Nearest frequency peer: IFC (-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 « illustra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- idiopathique
idiopathique
34,002 corpus weight
- Idir
Idir
34,001 corpus weight
- IFC
IFC
34,000 corpus weight
- illustra
illustra
33,999 corpus weight
- Ilse
Ilse
33,998 corpus weight
- immémoriaux
immémoriaux
33,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illustra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illustra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.lys.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illustra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illustra is uncommon French at frequency #66,002 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.lys.tʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de illustrer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for illustra, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is illustra, spelled I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de illustrer.
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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