inconnu
\ɛ̃.kɔ.ny\
The verdict
“inconnu” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,267
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on ne connaît pas, ignoré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inconnu · inconnu · French
inconnu · rank #3,267 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,267
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immigration
Nearest frequency peer: immigration (-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 « inconnu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- horrible
horrible
96,737 corpus weight
- humeur
humeur
96,736 corpus weight
- immigration
immigration
96,735 corpus weight
- inconnu
inconnu
96,734 corpus weight
- innovation
innovation
96,733 corpus weight
- jouent
jouent
96,732 corpus weight
What this shows « inconnu » 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 | inconnu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ.ny\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inconnu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around inconnu (IPA \ɛ̃.kɔ.ny\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,267 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 inconnu, with forms such as "icnonnu", "incconnu", and "incnonu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "inconnue", "inconnus", "inconnues", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is inconnu, spelled I-N-C-O-N-N-U.
Definition
- 1Que l’on ne connaît pas, ignoré.
- 2Qu’on n’a pas encore éprouvé, ressenti.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inconnu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, j’ai souri à des femmes inconnues, j’ai entendu siffler le merle prisonnier, j’ai respiré la saine odeur du persil qu’on hache et j’ai vu luire les carottes rouges sous les fontaines.
Tout s’est modernisé, et il y a de tout, sauf des gendarmes et des prisons, car le crime est encore inconnu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icnonnu
- incconnu
- incnonu
- inconu
- inconun
- innconnu
- inocnnu
- niconnu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inconnu - 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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).