ivory
\ˈaɪ.və.ri\
The verdict
“ivory” is uncommon French (frequency #63,104 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,104
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ivoire, substance dure blanche et opaque qui est la matière principale des dents et des défenses d’animaux comme l’éléphant, l’hippopotame, le morse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ivory · ivory · French
ivory · rank #63,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,104
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH isotopique
Nearest frequency peer: isotopique (-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 « ivory »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ischémie
ischémie
36,899 corpus weight
- isotopique
isotopique
36,898 corpus weight
- ivory
ivory
36,897 corpus weight
- Jabbar
Jabbar
36,896 corpus weight
- jacque
jacque
36,895 corpus weight
- japonnais
japonnais
36,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ivory » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ivory |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaɪ.və.ri\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ivory » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ivory is uncommon French at frequency #63,104 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈaɪ.və.ri\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ivory, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ivory, spelled I-V-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Ivoire, substance dure blanche et opaque qui est la matière principale des dents et des défenses d’animaux comme l’éléphant, l’hippopotame, le morse.
- 2Toute chose qui ressemble à de l’ivoire.
- 3Dent.
- 4Touches d’un piano.
- 5Couleur qui rappelle celle de l’ivoire. #FFFFD4
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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