inavouable
\i.na.vwabl\
The verdict
“inavouable” is uncommon French (frequency #66,819 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,819
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être avoué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inavouable · inavouable · French
inavouable · rank #66,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,819
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impudence
Nearest frequency peer: impudence (-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 « inavouable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imparfaites
imparfaites
33,185 corpus weight
- importune
importune
33,184 corpus weight
- impudence
impudence
33,183 corpus weight
- inavouable
inavouable
33,182 corpus weight
- incongruité
incongruité
33,181 corpus weight
- inconstitut…
inconstitutionnalité
33,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inavouable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inavouable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.na.vwabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inavouable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inavouable is uncommon French at frequency #66,819 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.na.vwabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne peut être avoué.".
inavouable doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 inavouable, spelled I-N-A-V-O-U-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être avoué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inavouable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh oui! sans doute, il y a dans la société contemporaine des infamies et des hontes, des fortunes dont la source est inavouable, des positions usurpées, des métiers exercés bassement, des industries déshonorantes, des égoïsmes poussés jusqu’à la lâcheté et à la scélératesse, des turpitudes sans nom !
Le long des reliures sombres des livres étagés par centaines, voltigeaient des noms profanes, Parny, Piron, Voltaire, Boccace, Brantôme, et, au centre des ouvrages avouables, s’ouvraient les battants d’un bahut incrusté d’ivoire qui recélait, entre ses rayons doublés de velours pourpre, les ouvrages inavouables.
Antonyms
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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