issue
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,921
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
issue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sortie, lieu par où l’on sort. Pronounced \i.sy\. It ranks #1,921 in French word frequency. Often confused with Issy and issus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | issue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.sy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for issue is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.sy\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,921 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for issue, with forms such as "isseu", "isue", and "isuse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Issy", "issus", "issues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is issue, spelled I-S-S-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sortie, lieu par où l’on sort.
- 2Passage, ouverture par laquelle une chose peut sortir.
- 3Les extrémités, en parlant des entrailles de quelques animaux, comme les pieds, la tête et la queue, le cœur, le foie, le poumon, la rate, etc.
- 4Ce qui reste des moutures après la farine, comme le son, la recoupe, etc.
- 5Événement final, manière dont on sort d’une affaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: isseu,isue,isuse,sisue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "issue"
Frequency rank: #1,921 in French
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