indésirable
\ɛ̃.de.zi.ʁabl\
The verdict
“indésirable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,396
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on ne peut pas désirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indesirable · indésirable · French
indésirable · rank #29,396 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,396
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH individualité
Nearest frequency peer: individualité (-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 « indésirable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- incubateur
incubateur
70,608 corpus weight
- indignés
indignés
70,607 corpus weight
- individuali…
individualité
70,606 corpus weight
- indésirable
indésirable
70,605 corpus weight
- infante
infante
70,604 corpus weight
- insatiable
insatiable
70,603 corpus weight
What this shows « indésirable » 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 | indésirable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.de.zi.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indésirable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around indésirable (IPA \ɛ̃.de.zi.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,396 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for indésirable, with forms such as "idnésirable", "inddésirable", and "indesirable". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "indésirables", "indéniable", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is indésirable, spelled I-N-D-É-S-I-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on ne peut pas désirer.
- 2Dont la présence ou l’existence est une gêne, un défaut, une nuisance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indésirable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous une royauté, le pouvoir est presque inaccessible ; il peut, sans trop de danger, être environné de séductions ; mais sous une république, c’est autre chose ; une émeute peut le donner à qui le rêve : il faut donc le rendre austère, ennuyeux, pénible, indésirable enfin, pour en dégoûter les rêveurs ambitieux.
Dans nombre de cas, l’addition de désoxydants à de telles coulées est indésirable.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnésirable
- inddésirable
- indesirable
- indséirable
- indéisrable
- indésiarble
- indésirabble
- indésirabel
- indésirablle
- indésiralbe
- indésirbale
- indésirrable
- indésriable
- indéssirable
- inndésirable
- inédsirable
- nidésirable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indésirable - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).