issu

\i.sy\

/\i.sy\/ adj

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The verdict

“issu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,769) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#4,769
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
2
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Né (d’une personne, d’une lignée ou d’une race), descendant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-issu · issu · French

issu · rank #4,769 · 2 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,769
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 2 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH jambe

Nearest frequency peer: jambe (+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 « issu »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « issu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

issu vs iu
50% similar
issu vs its
50% similar
issu vs Issy
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for issu
PropertyValue
Headwordissu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\i.sy\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,769
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « issu »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.issuse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « jambe » (#4,770), « introduit » (#4,767), « imagination » (#4,766). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « issu » est au #4,769. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for issu is neighbouring look-alikes ("iu", "its", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \i.sy\. Frequency #4,769 among 3,561 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for issu, including "isu" and "sisu". 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, "iu", "its", "Issy", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is issu, spelled I-S-S-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Né (d’une personne, d’une lignée ou d’une race), descendant.
  2. 2
    Provenant, en parlant d’une origine analogue à celle de la naissance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how issu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De ce mariage sont issus beaucoup d’enfants.
  2. Il est issu de la famille des Bourbons.

Synonyms

descendantoriginaire

This word in other languages

from(English)nacido(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • isu
  • sisu

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of issu - 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.

isu1sisu2
Edit distance from "issu"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "issu"?
"issu" is spelled I-S-S-U. The IPA pronunciation is \i.sy\.
What does "issu" mean?
As an adjective, "issu" means: Né (d’une personne, d’une lignée ou d’une race), descendant.
What words are commonly confused with "issu"?
"issu" is commonly confused with "iu", "its", "Issy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "issu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "issu" is \i.sy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "issu" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "issu", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gain#4,762Metz#4,781pile#4,786Cris#4,743

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list