indentation
\ɛ̃.dɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“indentation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mise en retrait de la première ligne d’un paragraphe pour le rendre plus lisible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indentation · indentation · French
indentation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indentation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indentation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indentation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.dɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for indentation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is indentation, spelled I-N-D-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mise en retrait de la première ligne d’un paragraphe pour le rendre plus lisible.
- 2Retrait des lignes d’un bloc, pour les distinguer de celles qui ne font pas partie du bloc
- 3Avancée de la mer dans les terres.
- 4Échancrure ayant l’aspect d'une morsure produite par une dent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indentation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’indentation est la norme dans la typographie française mais pas anglo-saxonne.
Une mauvaise indentation n’empêche pas un programme en C de fonctionner, mais elle est catastrophique pour un programme en Python.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.