indétermination
\ɛ̃.de.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“indétermination” is uncommon French (frequency #79,406 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,406
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est indéterminé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indetermination · indétermination · French
indétermination · rank #79,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,406
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incorrects
Nearest frequency peer: incorrects (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « indétermination »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incinérée
incinérée
20,598 corpus weight
- inconséquen…
inconséquence
20,597 corpus weight
- incorrects
incorrects
20,596 corpus weight
- indétermina…
indétermination
20,595 corpus weight
- indétrônable
indétrônable
20,594 corpus weight
- infantino
infantino
20,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « indétermination » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indétermination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.de.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #79,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indétermination » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indétermination is uncommon French at frequency #79,406 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.de.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for indétermination, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is indétermination, spelled I-N-D-É-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est indéterminé.
- 2Manque de décision, de résolution, impuissance à se déterminer à telle ou telle chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indétermination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous conclurons là que la musique chorégraphique (formellement ou virtuellement chorégraphique) est imitative, mais en un sens large qui laisse la place à beaucoup d’indétermination.
Il est encore dans l’indétermination.
This word in other languages
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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