inacceptable

\i.nak.sɛp.tabl\

/\i.nak.sɛp.tabl\/ adj

The verdict

“inacceptable” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,335
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on ne peut ou qu’on ne doit pas accepter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-inacceptable · inacceptable · French

inacceptable · rank #9,335 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,335
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH impressions

Nearest frequency peer: impressions (-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 « inacceptable »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « inacceptable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

inacceptable vs inacceptables
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for inacceptable
PropertyValue
Headwordinacceptable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\i.nak.sɛp.tabl\
Letters12
Frequency rank#9,335
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inacceptable »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).inacceptablese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « impressions » (#9,334), « indifférence » (#9,336), « illustrer » (#9,333). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « inacceptable » est au #9,335. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around inacceptable (IPA \i.nak.sɛp.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,335 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qu’on ne peut ou qu’on ne doit pas accepter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for inacceptable, with forms such as "iancceptable", "inaccepatble", and "inaccepptable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "inacceptables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is inacceptable, spelled I-N-A-C-C-E-P-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qu’on ne peut ou qu’on ne doit pas accepter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how inacceptable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Par exemple, de la folle-avoine sera plus inacceptable dans une production de céréales destinée à la panification, que une céréale destinée à l'alimentation du bétail.
  2. Les politiques visant à « désethniser », ou à éliminer d’une autre façon des groupes ou certains éléments de leur culture, sont inacceptables sauf dans le cas de coutumes incompatibles avec les lois et usages des nations civilisées et avec les droits civiques et humains généralement admis, et dans le cas de coutumes spécifiées comme répréhensibles dans le…

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iancceptable
  • inaccepatble
  • inaccepptable
  • inacceptabble
  • inacceptabel
  • inacceptablle
  • inacceptalbe
  • inacceptbale
  • inaccepttable
  • inaccetpable
  • inaccpetable
  • inacecptable
  • inaceptable
  • incaceptable
  • innacceptable
  • niacceptable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inacceptable - 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.

iancceptable2inaccepatble2inaccepptable1inacceptabble1inacceptabel2inacceptablle1inacceptalbe2inacceptbale2
Edit distance from "inacceptable"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inacceptable"?
"inacceptable" is spelled I-N-A-C-C-E-P-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.nak.sɛp.tabl\.
What does "inacceptable" mean?
As an adjective, "inacceptable" means: Qu’on ne peut ou qu’on ne doit pas accepter.
What words are commonly confused with "inacceptable"?
"inacceptable" is commonly confused with "inacceptables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inacceptable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inacceptable" is \i.nak.sɛp.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inacceptable" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "inacceptable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list