ison
\i.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“ison” is uncommon French (frequency #89,835 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,835
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monotonie du chant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ison · ison · French
ison · rank #89,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,835
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH isolationniste
Nearest frequency peer: isolationniste (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ison »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inventorié
inventorié
10,170 corpus weight
- invérifiabl…
invérifiables
10,169 corpus weight
- isolationni…
isolationniste
10,167 corpus weight
- ison
ison
10,166 corpus weight
- isotopiques
isotopiques
10,165 corpus weight
- J2EE
J2EE
10,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ison » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ison » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ison is uncommon French at frequency #89,835 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Monotonie du chant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ison, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ison, spelled I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Monotonie du chant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
chant en ison, psalmodie qui ne roule que sur deux notes.
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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