inapte
\i.napt\
The verdict
“inapte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,443. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,443
- 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 n’est pas apte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inapte · inapte · French
inapte · rank #32,443 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,443
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprévue
Nearest frequency peer: imprévue (-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 « inapte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- héréditaires
héréditaires
67,562 corpus weight
- imprévue
imprévue
67,559 corpus weight
- inapte
inapte
67,558 corpus weight
- indifféremm…
indifféremment
67,557 corpus weight
- INF
INF
67,556 corpus weight
- infinity
infinity
67,555 corpus weight
What this shows « inapte » 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 | inapte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.napt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inapte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around inapte (IPA \i.napt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,443 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for inapte, with forms such as "ianpte", "inapet", and "inappte". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "invite", "incite", "inerte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 inapte, spelled I-N-A-P-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas apte.
- 2Inapte au service militaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inapte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le stratégiste, elle risque, entre autres problèmes, de « tacticiser » la stratégie — réduisant la stratégie à une pure exécution technique, la dépolitisant au passage — imposant également de reconsidérer l’articulation entre efficacité et efficience militaire, au risque de déboucher sur de « nouvelles armées d’ancien régime », techniquement très ava…
Il fut déclaré inapte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ianpte
- inapet
- inappte
- inaptte
- inatpe
- innapte
- inpate
- niapte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inapte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "inapte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).