inconsistant
\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“inconsistant” is uncommon French (frequency #90,823 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,823
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque de consistance ; dont la texture est malléable ou qui manque d’homogénéité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inconsistant · inconsistant · French
inconsistant · rank #90,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,823
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imt
Nearest frequency peer: imt (-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 « inconsistant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ignora
ignora
9,181 corpus weight
- IMAP
IMAP
9,180 corpus weight
- imt
imt
9,179 corpus weight
- inconsistant
inconsistant
9,178 corpus weight
- incurvées
incurvées
9,177 corpus weight
- infantilisa…
infantilisation
9,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inconsistant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inconsistant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inconsistant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inconsistant is uncommon French at frequency #90,823 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sis.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
inconsistant has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inconsistant, spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-I-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui manque de consistance ; dont la texture est malléable ou qui manque d’homogénéité.
- 2Qui manque de suite et d’ensemble dans sa conduite et dans ses discours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inconsistant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] puis ils ralentirent progressivement jusqu’à peiner dans les derniers mètres sur un sable inconsistant.
Mais tandis que notre politique marocaine restait inconsistante, notre opinion publique avait enfin commencé à s’intéresser au Maroc.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).