islandais
\i.slɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“islandais” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,908
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’Islande, à sa langue, à ses habitants, à sa culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-islandais · islandais · French
islandais · rank #22,908 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,908
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inventaires
Nearest frequency peer: inventaires (-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 « islandais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- interrupteur
interrupteur
77,095 corpus weight
- inventaires
inventaires
77,094 corpus weight
- islandais
islandais
77,093 corpus weight
- jeudis
jeudis
77,092 corpus weight
- joyaux
joyaux
77,091 corpus weight
- joyeusement
joyeusement
77,090 corpus weight
What this shows « islandais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | islandais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.slɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « islandais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around islandais (IPA \i.slɑ̃.dɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,908 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’Islande, à sa langue, à ses habitants, à sa culture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for islandais, with forms such as "ilsandais", "isalndais", and "isladnais". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "islands", "islandaise", "irlandais", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is islandais, spelled I-S-L-A-N-D-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Islande, à sa langue, à ses habitants, à sa culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how islandais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit bien un poète islandais du onzième siècle rencontrer par avance les plus sombres imaginations du Dante, ou plutôt les emprunter de même à la France, où il était venu les chercher pour les mêler bizarrement aux traditions du Nord, […].
Quand on traverse pour la première fois une rivière islandaise, on ne peut se défendre de la crainte; mais on s’accoutume vite à ce genre d’émotion, et l’on finit même par y trouver un certain charme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsandais
- isalndais
- isladnais
- islanadis
- islandaiss
- islandasi
- islanddais
- islandias
- islanndais
- isllandais
- islnadais
- isslandais
- silandais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of islandais - 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.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).