faculté innée
The verdict
“faculté innée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Faculté qui n’a nécessité aucun apprentissage, comme en requiert une faculté acquise. Le sujet en disposait donc lors de sa naissance, ce qui n'implique pas qu'il puisse ou non l'améliorer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faculté innée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.kyl.te i.ne\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faculté innée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faculté innée is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.kyl.te i.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Faculté qui n’a nécessité aucun apprentissage, comme en requiert une faculté acquise. Le sujet en disposait donc lors de sa naissance, ce qui n'implique pas qu'il puisse ou non l'améliorer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faculté innée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faculté innée, spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-É- -I-N-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faculté qui n’a nécessité aucun apprentissage, comme en requiert une faculté acquise. Le sujet en disposait donc lors de sa naissance, ce qui n'implique pas qu'il puisse ou non l'améliorer.
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Using “faculté innée”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-A-C-U-L-T-É- -I-N-N-É-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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