Ilona

name

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The verdict

“Ilona” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,141. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,141
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ilona · Ilona · French

Ilona · rank #49,141 · 6 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,141
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH illisibles

Nearest frequency peer: illisibles (-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 « Ilona »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Ilona » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Ilona vs ion
40% similar
Ilona vs ina
40% similar
Ilona vs iron
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Ilona
PropertyValue
HeadwordIlona
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#49,141
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ilona »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Ilonase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « illisibles » (#49,140), « imagée » (#49,142), « iconographiques » (#49,139). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « Ilona » est au #49,141. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Ilona, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,141 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ilona, with forms such as "illona", "ilnoa", and "iloan". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "ion", "ina", "iron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ilona, spelled I-L-O-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Ilona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce 3 avril 2025, Ilona Smet a officialisé sa deuxième grossesse sur la Toile.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • illona
  • ilnoa
  • iloan
  • ilonna
  • iolna
  • liona

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ilona - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

illona1ilnoa2iloan2ilonna1iolna2liona2
Edit distance from "Ilona"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ilona"?
"Ilona" is spelled I-L-O-N-A.
What does "Ilona" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ilona" means: Prénom féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Ilona"?
"Ilona" is commonly confused with "ion", "ina", "iron". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Ilona" come from?
"Ilona" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ilona", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hummm#49,134Hatem#49,123glane#49,111Geert#49,109

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

kwon6 variantsFeld6 variantsMeier6 variantscroco6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list