indolence
\ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“indolence” is uncommon French (frequency #75,784 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,784
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposition à éviter tout effort, toute peine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indolence · indolence · French
indolence · rank #75,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,784
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indignées
Nearest frequency peer: indignées (-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 « indolence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- increase
increase
24,220 corpus weight
- incunables
incunables
24,219 corpus weight
- indignées
indignées
24,218 corpus weight
- indolence
indolence
24,217 corpus weight
- indélicats
indélicats
24,216 corpus weight
- ingérés
ingérés
24,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « indolence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indolence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indolence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indolence is uncommon French at frequency #75,784 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Disposition à éviter tout effort, toute peine.".
indolence has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is indolence, spelled I-N-D-O-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Disposition à éviter tout effort, toute peine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indolence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appuyée sur le dos du siège et légèrement inclinée, la tête de ce brave père restait dans une pose dont l’indolence peignait un calme parfait, un doux épanouissement de joie.
Le ciel trop doux, le soleil trop resplendissant, l’air où traînait comme un souffle de langueur, qui invitait à l’indolence et à la volupté très lente, […]
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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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