inanité
\i.na.ni.te\
The verdict
“inanité” is uncommon French (frequency #62,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,360
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est vain, inutile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inanite · inanité · French
inanité · rank #62,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,360
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inanimés
Nearest frequency peer: inanimés (-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 « inanité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imputées
imputées
37,644 corpus weight
- IMs
IMs
37,643 corpus weight
- inanimés
inanimés
37,642 corpus weight
- inanité
inanité
37,641 corpus weight
- inaugurés
inaugurés
37,640 corpus weight
- incarcérer
incarcérer
37,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inanité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inanité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.na.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inanité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inanité is uncommon French at frequency #62,360 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.na.ni.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de ce qui est vain, inutile.".
No misspelling variants are generated for inanité in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inanité, spelled I-N-A-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est vain, inutile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inanité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’opinion se convainc de l’inanité du bellicisme.
[…] ; mais on l’accueille par un sourire et non par une injure, ce qui est pis ; et promptement il se rend compte de l’inanité de ses démarches, du néant de ses efforts et il se décourage !
This word in other languages
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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