indiscrète
\ɛ̃.dis.kʁɛt\
The verdict
“indiscrète” is uncommon French (frequency #50,293 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,293
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui manque de retenue, de réserve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indiscrete · indiscrète · French
indiscrète · rank #50,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,293
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indiqua
Nearest frequency peer: indiqua (-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 « indiscrète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incurables
incurables
49,711 corpus weight
- indiqua
indiqua
49,709 corpus weight
- indiscrète
indiscrète
49,708 corpus weight
- indistincte…
indistinctement
49,707 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialisé
49,706 corpus weight
- injectant
injectant
49,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « indiscrète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indiscrète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dis.kʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indiscrète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indiscrète is uncommon French at frequency #50,293 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.dis.kʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui manque de retenue, de réserve.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for indiscrète, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is indiscrète, spelled I-N-D-I-S-C-R-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui manque de retenue, de réserve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indiscrète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une indiscrète à qui l’on ne peut se fier.
Elle s’attarda à l’entrée du prétoire, telle une indiscrète qui écoutait aux portes, risqua un toctoc discret mais personne ne vint.
Synonyms
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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