illustrator
The verdict
“illustrator” is uncommon French (frequency #67,588 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,588
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Illustrateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illustrator · illustrator · French
illustrator · rank #67,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,588
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH illusoires
Nearest frequency peer: illusoires (-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 « illustrator »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ifi
ifi
32,416 corpus weight
- ignition
ignition
32,415 corpus weight
- illusoires
illusoires
32,414 corpus weight
- illustrator
illustrator
32,413 corpus weight
- immigrante
immigrante
32,412 corpus weight
- impaires
impaires
32,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illustrator » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illustrator |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illustrator » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illustrator is uncommon French at frequency #67,588 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Illustrateur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for illustrator in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is illustrator, spelled I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Illustrateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how illustrator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Terry is one of the best illustrators of children's books in the country.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).