indice

/\ɛ̃.dis\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,337

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

indice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signe apparent et probable qu’une chose existe ou s'est produite. Pronounced \ɛ̃.dis\. It ranks #3,337 in French word frequency. Often confused with Indre and Indie.

Key facts for indice
PropertyValue
Headwordindice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.dis\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,337
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for indice is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.dis\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,337 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for indice, with forms such as "idnice", "indcie", and "inddice". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Indre", "Indie", "invite", 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 indice, spelled I-N-D-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Signe apparent et probable qu’une chose existe ou s'est produite.
  2. 2
    Nombre permettant un classement ou une indexation.
  3. 3
    Quotient, rapport ou ratio d’un nombre à un autre.
  4. 4
    Indicateur économique.
  5. 5
    Notation de moindre corps, placée en position inférieure et à droite d’un élément du texte que l’indice complète; cette notation est utilisée entre autres pour numéroter des éléments d’ensembles dénombrables en mathématique ou exprimer des numéros atomiques en physique; l’indice est symétrique de l’exposant.
  6. 6
    Entier naturel repérant la position d'un élément dans une séquence.
  7. 7
    Coordonnée caractérisant la position d’une case d’un tableur.
  8. 8
    Manifestation directe et immédiatement perceptible d’un objet qui ne l’est pas.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: idnice,indcie,inddice,indicce,indiec,inidce,inndice,nidice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for indice

Misspelling Variants of "indice"

idnice6indcie6inddice7indicce7indiec6inidce6inndice7nidice6
Misspelling Variants of "indice"

Frequency rank: #3,337 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "indice"?
"indice" is spelled I-N-D-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.dis\.
What does "indice" mean?
As a noun, "indice" means: Signe apparent et probable qu’une chose existe ou s'est produite.
What words are commonly confused with "indice"?
"indice" is commonly confused with "Indre", "Indie", "invite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "indice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "indice" is \ɛ̃.dis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "indice" come from?
"indice" 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.