indépendant

/\ɛ̃.de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,204

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

indépendant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne dépend pas de telle personne ou de telle chose, qui ne lui est pas subordonné. Pronounced \ɛ̃.de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\. It ranks #3,204 in French word frequency. Often confused with independent and indépendante.

Key facts for indépendant
PropertyValue
Headwordindépendant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɛ̃.de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#3,204
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of indépendant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for indépendant is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,204 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for indépendant, with forms such as "idnépendant", "inddépendant", and "independant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "independent", "indépendante", "indépendants", and more, 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 indépendant, spelled I-N-D-É-P-E-N-D-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui ne dépend pas de telle personne ou de telle chose, qui ne lui est pas subordonné.
  2. 2
    Qui n’a pas de rapport ou de relation avec quelque chose d’autre.
  3. 3
    Qui est libre de toute dépendance.
  4. 4
    Qualifie des événements dont l'intersection a pour probabilité le produit des probabilités.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: idnépendant,inddépendant,independant,indpéendant,indéepndant,indépednant,indépenadnt,indépendannt,indépendantt,indépendatn,indépenddant,indépendnat,indépenndant,indépnedant,indéppendant,inndépendant,inédpendant,nidépendant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for indépendant

Misspelling Variants of "indépendant"

idnépendant11inddépendant12independant11indpéendant11indéepndant11indépednant11indépenadnt11indépendannt12
Misspelling Variants of "indépendant"

Frequency rank: #3,204 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "indépendant"?
"indépendant" is spelled I-N-D-É-P-E-N-D-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\.
What does "indépendant" mean?
As an adj, "indépendant" means: Qui ne dépend pas de telle personne ou de telle chose, qui ne lui est pas subordonné.
What words are commonly confused with "indépendant"?
"indépendant" is commonly confused with "independent", "indépendante", "indépendants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "indépendant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "indépendant" is \ɛ̃.de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "indépendant" come from?
"indépendant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.