indique
\ɛ̃.dik\
The verdict
“indique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,772. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,772
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie les composés acides de l’indium et de l’oxygène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indique · indique · French
indique · rank #1,772 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,772
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Intention
Nearest frequency peer: Intention (+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 « indique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- disponible
disponible
98,232 corpus weight
- fleurs
fleurs
98,231 corpus weight
- indique
indique
98,229 corpus weight
- Intention
Intention
98,228 corpus weight
- jardin
jardin
98,227 corpus weight
- lac
lac
98,226 corpus weight
What this shows « indique » 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 | indique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around indique (IPA \ɛ̃.dik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,772 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie les composés acides de l’indium et de l’oxygène.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for indique, with forms such as "idnique", "inddique", and "indiqeu". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "inique", "invoque", "insinue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is indique, spelled I-N-D-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie les composés acides de l’indium et de l’oxygène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how indique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chlorure indique anhydre paraît être blanc avec l’éclat nacré ; il attire follement l’humidité de l’air, et perd alors, par sa dessication, une partie de son acide chlorhydrique ; la grande volatilité de ce corps rend très-fugitive son apparition dans l’appareil spectral.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnique
- inddique
- indiqeu
- indiqque
- indiuqe
- indqiue
- inidque
- inndique
- nidique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indique - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).