indignant
\ɛ̃.di.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“indignant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de indigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indignant · indignant · French
indignant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | indignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.di.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indignant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indignant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.di.ɲɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de indigner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for indignant, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is indignant, spelled I-N-D-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de indigner.
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.