isla
\ˈis.la\
The verdict
“isla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,015) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,015
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île.
Corpus desk
Index FR-isla · isla · French
isla · rank #36,015 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,015
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irréductible
Nearest frequency peer: irréductible (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « isla »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ionique
ionique
63,990 corpus weight
- Ireland
Ireland
63,989 corpus weight
- irrecevable
irrecevable
63,988 corpus weight
- irréductible
irréductible
63,987 corpus weight
- isla
isla
63,986 corpus weight
- jouis
jouis
63,982 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « isla » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | isla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈis.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « isla »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for isla is neighbouring look-alikes ("iso", "iss", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈis.la\. Frequency #36,015 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Île.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for isla, with forms such as "isal", "islla", and "issla". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "iso", "iss", "ita", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 isla, spelled I-S-L-A.
Definition
- 1Île.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isal
- islla
- issla
- sila
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of isla - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).