ixe
\iks\
The verdict
“ixe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,069) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,069
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre latine X, x.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ixe · ixe · French
ixe · rank #26,069 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,069
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH jamal
Nearest frequency peer: jamal (+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 « ixe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- inventent
inventent
73,935 corpus weight
- irrationnel
irrationnel
73,934 corpus weight
- ixe
ixe
73,932 corpus weight
- jamal
jamal
73,931 corpus weight
- jantes
jantes
73,930 corpus weight
- jouées
jouées
73,929 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ixe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ixe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \iks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ixe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ixe is neighbouring look-alikes ("X", "I", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \iks\. Frequency #26,069 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Lettre latine X, x.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ixe, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "X", "I", "il", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ixe, spelled I-X-E.
Definition
- 1Lettre latine X, x.
This word in other languages
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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