ignare
\i.ɲaʁ\
The verdict
“ignare” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,949
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une ignorance excessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ignare · ignare · French
ignare · rank #47,949 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,949
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IAE
Nearest frequency peer: IAE (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ignare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hypertrophie
Hypertrophie
52,055 corpus weight
- hébergent
hébergent
52,054 corpus weight
- IAE
IAE
52,053 corpus weight
- ignare
ignare
52,052 corpus weight
- imaginatif
imaginatif
52,051 corpus weight
- immergés
immergés
52,050 corpus weight
What this shows « ignare » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | ignare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ɲaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ignare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ignare (IPA \i.ɲaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,949 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est d’une ignorance excessive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ignare, with forms such as "ginare", "iganre", and "iggnare". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Indre", "ignoré", "ignorer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ignare, spelled I-G-N-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une ignorance excessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ignare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car comme un coq qui treuve une perle perdue Ne sçachant la valeur de la chose incognue: Ainsi, ou peu s’en faut, l’homme ignare ne sçait Quel est entre les deux sexes le plus parfait.
[…] bien qu’ils ne soient pas des perroquets, ses élèves valent ceux des autres collègues. Le psittacisme serait-il à ce point recommandable ? Puisqu’à l’examen du Certificat ses candidats ne se montrent nullement ignares.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ginare
- iganre
- iggnare
- ignaer
- ignarre
- ignnare
- ignrae
- ingare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ignare - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).