izard
\i.zaʁ\
The verdict
“izard” is uncommon French (frequency #98,116 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,116
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de isard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-izard · izard · French
izard · rank #98,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,116
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH jaber
Nearest frequency peer: jaber (+2 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 « izard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- italiane
italiane
1,888 corpus weight
- izard
izard
1,885 corpus weight
- jaber
jaber
1,883 corpus weight
- jacobite
jacobite
1,882 corpus weight
- Jahan
Jahan
1,881 corpus weight
- Jahrhunderts
Jahrhunderts
1,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « izard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | izard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « izard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
izard is uncommon French at frequency #98,116 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.zaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de isard.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for izard, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is izard, spelled I-Z-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Variante de isard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how izard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors les izards timides, gracieux et bondissants, descendent des cimes sauvages et viennent, l’œil aux aguets, lécher la pierre nue qui a gardé le goût attirant du sel !...
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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