individu

Name: individu, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\

/\ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“individu” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,720. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,720
frequency rank, French: 3,561
“I” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entité autonome qui ne peut être ni partagée ni divisée sans perdre les caractéristiques qui lui sont propres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-individu · individu · French

individu · rank #2,720 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #2,720
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-MID 3,561
PHOTO-FINISH intelligence

Nearest frequency peer: intelligence (+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.

fan

97,285
feuilles

97,284
go

97,283
individu

97,281
intelligence

97,280
Loire

97,279

What this shows « individu » 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).

individu vs individus

89% similar

individu vs individuel

80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for individu
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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « individu »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).individuse place ici:

#2,720

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « intelligence » (#2,721), « go » (#2,718), « Loire » (#2,722). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « individu » est au #2,720. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around individu (IPA \ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,720 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for individu, with forms such as "idnividu", "inddividu", and "indiivdu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "individus", "individuel", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 individu, spelled I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U.

Definition

1
Entité autonome qui ne peut être ni partagée ni divisée sans perdre les caractéristiques qui lui sont propres.
2
Chaque spécimen vivant (ou ayant vécu) d'une espèce animale ou végétale, issu d'une seule cellule et menant une existence autonome.
3
Personne, être humain considérée en tant qu’unité d'une population et par opposition à la collectivité.
4
Personne quelconque, non identifiée ou volontairement considérée comme telle.
5
Personne physique.
6
constituant d'un ensemble (une « population »), représenté par sa caractéristique étudiée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how individu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Les physiocrates paraissaient disposés à sacrifier les individus à l'utilité générale ; ils tenaient fort peu à la liberté et trouvaient absurde l'idée d'une pondération des pouvoirs ; […]
Ils pensent en effet que le luxe vestimentaire est proportionnel à l'importance et à la renommée d'un individu : […].

This word in other languages

individual(English)individuo(Español)Einzelwesen(Deutsch)indivíduo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

idnividu
inddividu
indiivdu
indivdiu
individdu
indiviud
indivvidu
indviidu
inidvidu
inndividu
nidividu

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of individu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "individu"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "individu"?

"individu" is spelled I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\.

What does "individu" mean?

As a noun, "individu" means: Entité autonome qui ne peut être ni partagée ni divisée sans perdre les caractéristiques qui lui sont propres.

What words are commonly confused with "individu"?

"individu" is commonly confused with "individus", "individuel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "individu"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "individu" is \ɛ̃.di.vi.dy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "individu" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "individu", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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