Islande
\i.slɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Islande” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,857
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande île volcanique de l’Atlantique Nord, bordant l’océan Arctique au nord et située au sud-est du Groenland, au nord-nord-ouest de la Grande-Bretagne et au nord-ouest des îles Féroé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-islande · Islande · French
Islande · rank #9,857 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,857
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intérieurs
Nearest frequency peer: intérieurs (-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 « Islande »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Indonésie
Indonésie
90,147 corpus weight
- intérieurs
intérieurs
90,145 corpus weight
- Islande
Islande
90,144 corpus weight
- isoler
isoler
90,143 corpus weight
- israélienne
israélienne
90,142 corpus weight
- joints
joints
90,141 corpus weight
What this shows « Islande » 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 | Islande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.slɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Islande »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Islande (IPA \i.slɑ̃d\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,857 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Islande, with forms such as "ilsande", "isalnde", and "isladne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "islands", "island", "Irlande", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Islande, spelled I-S-L-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Grande île volcanique de l’Atlantique Nord, bordant l’océan Arctique au nord et située au sud-est du Groenland, au nord-nord-ouest de la Grande-Bretagne et au nord-ouest des îles Féroé.
- 2État dont le territoire occupe la totalité de cette île ainsi que les îlots environnants, et dont la capitale est Reykjavik.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Islande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Terre de glace ! la Terre des geysers et des volcans ! On a deviné l’Islande, car quelle autre contrée offre le surprenant spectacle d’une lutte éternelle entre le feu et le froid?
– La réponse, dit-il, fait allusion à l’île où gronde l’Hékla. N’y a-t-il pas confusion avec l’Islande ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsande
- isalnde
- isladne
- islandde
- islaned
- islannde
- isllande
- islnade
- isslande
- silande
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Islande - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Islande", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).