inductance
\ɛ̃.dyk.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“inductance” is uncommon French (frequency #76,682 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,682
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coefficient d’auto-induction ; il a pour unité le henry (H) dans le Système international.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inductance · inductance · French
inductance · rank #76,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,682
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indemnise
Nearest frequency peer: indemnise (-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 « inductance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incartade
incartade
23,322 corpus weight
- incorporell…
incorporelles
23,321 corpus weight
- indemnise
indemnise
23,320 corpus weight
- inductance
inductance
23,319 corpus weight
- infondé
infondé
23,318 corpus weight
- inhabitables
inhabitables
23,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inductance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inductance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dyk.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inductance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inductance is uncommon French at frequency #76,682 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.dyk.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
inductance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 inductance, spelled I-N-D-U-C-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Coefficient d’auto-induction ; il a pour unité le henry (H) dans le Système international.
- 2Tout composant électrique qui crée un flux d’induction magnétique quand un courant le traverse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inductance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des diodes de puissance au silicium de ce type connectées en opposition pour former un écrêteur symétrique, ont pu rendre de sécurité des circuits, contenant des inductances atteignant 330 mH, dans lesquelles circulaient des courants de 3,2 A efficaces sous des tensions allant jusqu’à 75 V efficaces.
La société américaine Boonton a réalisé un inductancemètre numérique destiné à la mesure des inductances dont la valeur est comprise entre 2 µH et 2,000 H.
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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