Inde
\ɛ̃d\
The verdict
“Inde” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,482) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,482
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très grand pays d’Asie, bordé par la Chine, le Népal et le Bhoutan au nord, la Birmanie et le Bangladesh à l’est, la golfe du Bengale et la mer d’Oman au sud, et le Pakistan à l’ouest, et dont la c...
Corpus desk
Index FR-inde · Inde · French
Inde · rank #2,482 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,482
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imaginer
Nearest frequency peer: imaginer (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Inde »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- grève
grève
97,522 corpus weight
- ha
ha
97,521 corpus weight
- imaginer
imaginer
97,520 corpus weight
- Inde
Inde
97,519 corpus weight
- jusque
jusque
97,518 corpus weight
- meurtre
meurtre
97,517 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Inde » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Inde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃d\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Inde »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Inde is neighbouring look-alikes ("ive", "ire", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛ̃d\. Frequency #2,482 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Très grand pays d’Asie, bordé par la Chine, le Népal et le Bhoutan au nord, la Birmanie et le Bangladesh à l’est, la golfe du Bengale et la mer d’Oman au sud, et le Pakistan à l’ouest, et dont la c...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Inde, with forms such as "idne", "indde", and "innde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ive", "ire", "ins", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Inde, spelled I-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Très grand pays d’Asie, bordé par la Chine, le Népal et le Bhoutan au nord, la Birmanie et le Bangladesh à l’est, la golfe du Bengale et la mer d’Oman au sud, et le Pakistan à l’ouest, et dont la capitale est New Delhi (la Nouvelle-Delhi).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Inde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après les calculs approximatifs du célèbre major Rennel, qui ont servi de base aux évaluations faites plus tard par le savant Graberg et par Bertuch, la population de l’Inde serait au-dessous de 95 millions, tandis qu’elle s’éleverait au-dessus de 100 millions d’après ceux de Canning, à 110 d’après l’évaluation de Orme et même à 120 millions d’après un…
De l’autre côté de l’Arabie, il y a encore des terres conquises à l’Islam, puis des régions habitées par des idolâtres, l’Inde et la Chine, qui atteignent le limbe oriental du disque terrestre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idne
- indde
- innde
- nide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Inde - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Inde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).