indûment
\ɛ̃.dy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“indûment” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,133
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière indue, injustement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indument · indûment · French
indûment · rank #34,133 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,133
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infecter
Nearest frequency peer: infecter (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « indûment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indestructi…
indestructible
65,871 corpus weight
- indécise
indécise
65,870 corpus weight
- indûment
indûment
65,868 corpus weight
- infecter
infecter
65,867 corpus weight
- informatici…
informaticiens
65,866 corpus weight
- infructueus…
infructueuses
65,865 corpus weight
What this shows « indûment » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indûment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indûment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around indûment (IPA \ɛ̃.dy.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #34,133 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière indue, injustement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for indûment, with forms such as "idnûment", "inddûment", and "indmûent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "indécent", "indulgent", "induisent", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is indûment, spelled I-N-D-Û-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière indue, injustement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indûment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Inversement, le signalement intervient quelquefois pour prouver la non identité, à la requête de personnes honorables […], qui demandent que l’on efface de leur casier des condamnations indûment inscrites.
Oui, sans doute, il est pitoyable que des personnes aisées occupent indûment des lits dans les hôpitaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnûment
- inddûment
- indmûent
- indument
- indûemnt
- indûmennt
- indûmentt
- indûmetn
- indûmment
- indûmnet
- inndûment
- inûdment
- nidûment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indûment - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).