inadéquat
\i.na.de.kwa\
The verdict
“inadéquat” is uncommon French (frequency #52,112 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,112
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne convient pas, qui n'est pas approprié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inadequat · inadéquat · French
inadéquat · rank #52,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,112
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inclusions
Nearest frequency peer: inclusions (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « inadéquat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- illusionnis…
illusionniste
47,893 corpus weight
- immisce
immisce
47,891 corpus weight
- inadéquat
inadéquat
47,889 corpus weight
- inclusions
inclusions
47,888 corpus weight
- incompressi…
incompressible
47,887 corpus weight
- inconstance
inconstance
47,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inadéquat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inadéquat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.na.de.kwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inadéquat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inadéquat is uncommon French at frequency #52,112 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.na.de.kwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne convient pas, qui n'est pas approprié.".
inadéquat has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inadéquat, spelled I-N-A-D-É-Q-U-A-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ne convient pas, qui n'est pas approprié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inadéquat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa tenue vestimentaire est inadéquate pour un entretien d'embauche.
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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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