indolent
\ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“indolent” is uncommon French (frequency #88,755 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,755
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne cause pas de douleur, indolore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indolent · indolent · French
indolent · rank #88,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,755
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indivisibles
Nearest frequency peer: indivisibles (-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 « indolent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indivisibil…
indivisibilité
11,248 corpus weight
- indivisibles
indivisibles
11,247 corpus weight
- indolent
indolent
11,246 corpus weight
- inexplorés
inexplorés
11,245 corpus weight
- inextinguib…
inextinguible
11,244 corpus weight
- infamant
infamant
11,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « indolent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indolent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « indolent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
indolent is uncommon French at frequency #88,755 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.dɔ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for indolent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is indolent, spelled I-N-D-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ne cause pas de douleur, indolore.
- 2À développement lent, par opposition à agressif.
- 3Insensible, qui ne se laisse pas affecter.
- 4Nonchalant.
- 5Qui manque de vivacité.
- 6Qui fait penser à la nonchalance, à la mollesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indolent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gonflement indolent.
Tumeur indolente.
This word in other languages
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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