Italian
\ɪ.ˈtæl.jən\
The verdict
“Italian” is uncommon French (frequency #53,423 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,423
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Italien. Relatif à l’Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-italian · Italian · French
Italian · rank #53,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,423
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH isotherme
Nearest frequency peer: isotherme (-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 « Italian »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- irrespirable
irrespirable
46,582 corpus weight
- irréelle
irréelle
46,581 corpus weight
- isotherme
isotherme
46,579 corpus weight
- Italian
Italian
46,578 corpus weight
- jacinthe
jacinthe
46,575 corpus weight
- Jacquie
Jacquie
46,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Italian » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Italian |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɪ.ˈtæl.jən\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Italian » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Italian is uncommon French at frequency #53,423 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɪ.ˈtæl.jən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Italian, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Italian, spelled I-T-A-L-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Italien. Relatif à l’Italie.
- 2Italien. Relatif à l’italien (langue).
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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