it
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,781
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
it is aFrenchpron. It means: Il, elle, le, la. Pronom personnel utilisé pour parler d’un animal ou d’une chose. Pronounced \ɪt\. It ranks #2,781 in French word frequency. Often confused with ix and iu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | it |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | \ɪt\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for it is 2 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɪt\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,781 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for it in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ix", "iu", "IVG", 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 it, spelled I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Il, elle, le, la. Pronom personnel utilisé pour parler d’un animal ou d’une chose.
- 2Il, elle, le, la. Pronom personnel qui fait référence à un être humain de sexe indéterminé, souvent à un bébé.
- 3Il. Pronom impersonnel utilisé comme sujet d’un verbe ou d’une phrase impersonnelle.
- 4Objet indéfini d’un verbe transitif.
- 5Ce. Sujet d’une phrase clivée.
- 6Il, ce. Pronom personnel qui remplace un infinitif déplacé ou une proposition avec that déplacée.
- 7ou Iel, ael ; pronom personnel neutre de la troisième personne du singulier se référent à une personne non-binaire.
Frequency rank: #2,781 in French
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