indéfini
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,343
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
indéfini is anFrenchadj. It means: Dont la fin, les bornes sont indéterminées ou ne peuvent pas être déterminées, vague, imprécis, indéterminé, incertain. Pronounced \ɛ̃.de.fi.ni\. Often confused with infini.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indéfini |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.de.fi.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for indéfini is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.de.fi.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,343 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for indéfini, with forms such as "idnéfini", "inddéfini", and "indefini". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "infini", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is indéfini, spelled I-N-D-É-F-I-N-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dont la fin, les bornes sont indéterminées ou ne peuvent pas être déterminées, vague, imprécis, indéterminé, incertain.
- 2Qui s’applique à un être ou à une chose qu’on ne veut pas ou qu’on ne peut pas déterminer.
- 3Qui n’est pas défini dans sa nature.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnéfini,inddéfini,indefini,indféini,indéffini,indéfiin,indéfinni,indéfnii,indéifni,inndéfini,inédfini,nidéfini
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Misspelling Variants of "indéfini"
Frequency rank: #41,343 in French
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Nearby French words
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