Isigny
The verdict
“Isigny” is uncommon French (frequency #76,695 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,695
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française Isigny-le-Buat (Manche).
Corpus desk
Index FR-isigny · Isigny · French
Isigny · rank #76,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,695
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 142,603
- PHOTO-FINISH Ishikawa
Nearest frequency peer: Ishikawa (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Isigny”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- intervieweur
intervieweur
23,310 corpus weight
- intégrable
intégrable
23,309 corpus weight
- Ischia
Ischia
23,308 corpus weight
- Ishikawa
Ishikawa
23,307 corpus weight
- Isigny
Isigny
23,306 corpus weight
- iwo
iwo
23,304 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Isigny” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Isigny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Isigny” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Isigny is uncommon French at frequency #76,695 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Isigny doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is Isigny, spelled I-S-I-G-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune française Isigny-le-Buat (Manche).
- 2Abréviation du nom de la commune d’Isigny-sur-Mer (Calvados).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Isigny", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.