item

\i.tɛm\

/\i.tɛm\/ adv

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The verdict

“item” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,048) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#19,048
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De même, également.

Corpus desk

Index FR-item · item · French

item · rank #19,048 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,048
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH Irène

Nearest frequency peer: Irène (-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 « item »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « item » 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).

item vs its
50% similar
item vs ive
50% similar
item vs ixe
50% similar

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

Key facts for item
PropertyValue
Headworditem
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\i.tɛm\
Letters4
Frequency rank#19,048
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « item »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Irène » (#19,047), « journalistique » (#19,049), « introduits » (#19,046). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « item » est au #19,048. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for item is neighbouring look-alikes ("its", "ive", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \i.tɛm\. Frequency #19,048 among 3,561 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for item, with forms such as "ietm", "itemm", and "ittem". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "its", "ive", "ixe", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is item, spelled I-T-E-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    De même, également.
  2. 2
    De plus, en outre. On s’en sert dans les comptes, dans les états que l’on fait.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Item, mon corps j’ordonne et laisse A nostre grand mère la terre ; Les vers n’y trouveront grand gresse : Trop lui a faict faim dure guerre.. […]
  2. Mon entrepreneur me demande tant pour ceci, item pour cela…

Synonyms

idemitou

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ietm
  • itemm
  • ittem

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of item - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ietm2itemm1ittem1
Edit distance from "item"

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 "item"?
"item" is spelled I-T-E-M. The IPA pronunciation is \i.tɛm\.
What does "item" mean?
As an adverb, "item" means: De même, également.
What words are commonly confused with "item"?
"item" is commonly confused with "its", "ive", "ixe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "item"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "item" is \i.tɛm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "item" come from?
"item" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Katy#19,051gîte#19,039Gers#19,033epic#19,010

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list