inconsolable
\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sɔ.labl\
The verdict
“inconsolable” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,107. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,107
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une personne que rien ne peut consoler
Corpus desk
Index FR-inconsolable · inconsolable · French
inconsolable · rank #45,107 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,107
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indigestion
Nearest frequency peer: indigestion (+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 « inconsolable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hut
Hut
54,898 corpus weight
- imbu
imbu
54,897 corpus weight
- immune
immune
54,896 corpus weight
- inconsolable
inconsolable
54,894 corpus weight
- indigestion
indigestion
54,893 corpus weight
- indivision
indivision
54,892 corpus weight
What this shows « inconsolable » 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 | inconsolable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sɔ.labl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #45,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inconsolable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around inconsolable (IPA \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.sɔ.labl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,107 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for inconsolable, with forms such as "icnonsolable", "incconsolable", and "incnosolable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "incontrôlable", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 inconsolable, spelled I-N-C-O-N-S-O-L-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une personne que rien ne peut consoler
- 2Qualifie l’affliction qu’on ne peut consoler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inconsolable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle restait là où elle était, immobile, inconsolable et comme une chiffe aux mains des bonnes femmes qui s’efforçaient de la réconforter.
Je me rappellerai que je porte en moi une enfant inconsolable que le poème, parfois, illumine.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- icnonsolable
- incconsolable
- incnosolable
- inconnsolable
- inconoslable
- inconsloable
- inconsoalble
- inconsolabble
- inconsolabel
- inconsolablle
- inconsolalbe
- inconsolbale
- inconsollable
- inconssolable
- incosnolable
- innconsolable
- inocnsolable
- niconsolable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inconsolable - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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