ignorant
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,071
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
ignorant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas instruit de certaines choses, qui ignore certaines choses. Pronounced \i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Often confused with ignorent and innovant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ignorant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ignorant is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,071 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ignorant, with forms such as "ginorant", "iggnorant", and "ignnorant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ignorent", "innovant", "ignorons", 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 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 ignorant, spelled I-G-N-O-R-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas instruit de certaines choses, qui ignore certaines choses.
- 2J’en suis aussi ignorant que l’enfant qui vient de naître, se dit pour marquer qu’on ne sait rien de quelque chose qui est arrivé.
- 3Qui n’est pas instruit de ce qu’il doit savoir.
- 4Qui n’a aucun savoir, qui est sans lettres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ginorant,iggnorant,ignnorant,ignoarnt,ignorannt,ignorantt,ignoratn,ignornat,ignorrant,ignroant,igonrant,ingorant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ignorant
Misspelling Variants of "ignorant"
Frequency rank: #11,071 in French
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