individu
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,720
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
individu is aFrenchnoun. It means: Entité autonome qui ne peut être ni partagée ni divisée sans perdre les caractéristiques qui lui sont propres. Pronounced \ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\. It ranks #2,720 in French word frequency. Often confused with individus and individuel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | individu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for individu is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,720 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for individu, with forms such as "idnividu", "inddividu", and "indiivdu". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "individus", "individuel", 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 individu, spelled I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Entité autonome qui ne peut être ni partagée ni divisée sans perdre les caractéristiques qui lui sont propres.
- 2Chaque spécimen vivant (ou ayant vécu) d'une espèce animale ou végétale, issu d'une seule cellule et menant une existence autonome.
- 3Personne, être humain considérée en tant qu’unité d'une population et par opposition à la collectivité.
- 4Personne quelconque, non identifiée ou volontairement considérée comme telle.
- 5Personne physique.
- 6constituant d'un ensemble (une « population »), représenté par sa caractéristique étudiée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnividu,inddividu,indiivdu,indivdiu,individdu,indiviud,indivvidu,indviidu,inidvidu,inndividu,nidividu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for individu
Misspelling Variants of "individu"
Frequency rank: #2,720 in French
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Nearby French words
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