Illyrie
\i.li.ʁi\
The verdict
“Illyrie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,869 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,869
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province romaine située sur la rive orientale de l’Adriatique, correspondant à peu près à l’Ouest de la Croatie, de la Slovénie, de la Bosnie-Herzégovine, du Montenegro de l’Albanie et du Kosovo ac...
Corpus desk
Index FR-illyrie · Illyrie · French
Illyrie · rank #60,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,869
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imaginative
Nearest frequency peer: imaginative (+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 « Illyrie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- icitte
icitte
39,135 corpus weight
- Illyrie
Illyrie
39,132 corpus weight
- imaginative
imaginative
39,131 corpus weight
- imbrication
imbrication
39,130 corpus weight
- imposez
imposez
39,129 corpus weight
- impresario
impresario
39,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Illyrie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Illyrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.li.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Illyrie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Illyrie is uncommon French at frequency #60,869 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \i.li.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Illyrie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Illyrie, spelled I-L-L-Y-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Province romaine située sur la rive orientale de l’Adriatique, correspondant à peu près à l’Ouest de la Croatie, de la Slovénie, de la Bosnie-Herzégovine, du Montenegro de l’Albanie et du Kosovo actuels.
- 2Provinces illyriennes, territoires annexés par le Premier Empire entre 1809 et 1813, repris ensuite par l’Empire d’Autriche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Illyrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, maintenant, on l’a étroitement sous la main et, par bonheur, voici qu’on trouve un autre poste magnifique, pour l’éloigner du théâtre des événements, non pas précisément, comme le précédent, situé sur les hauteurs de Néphélococcygie, ou dans la lune, mais néanmoins à des centaines de kilomètres de Paris : le gouvernement de l’Illyrie.
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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