ils
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#54
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ils is aFrenchpron. It means: Pronom clitique de la troisième personne du pluriel sujet, quand on parle d’un groupe d’hommes et de femmes ou de choses grammaticalement masculines et féminines. Pronounced \il\. It ranks #54 in French word frequency. Often confused with it and IP.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | \il\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ils is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \il\. Corpus data places it at rank #54 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ils in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "IP", "ix", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ils, spelled I-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pronom clitique de la troisième personne du pluriel sujet, quand on parle d’un groupe d’hommes et de femmes ou de choses grammaticalement masculines et féminines.
- 2Pronom clitique de la troisième personne du pluriel masculin sujet, quand on parle d’un groupe d’hommes ou de choses grammaticalement masculines.
- 3Pronom de la troisième personne du pluriel féminin sujet, quand on parle d’un groupe de femmes ou de choses grammaticalement féminines.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #54 in French
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