inemployé
\i.nɑ̃.plwa.je\
The verdict
“inemployé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas employé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inemploye · inemployé · French
inemployé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inemployé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nɑ̃.plwa.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
inemployé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.nɑ̃.plwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui n’est pas employé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for inemployé, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is inemployé, spelled I-N-E-M-P-L-O-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas employé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inemployé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certes, il laisse entendre d’abord qu’en l’homme demeurent, virtuelles ou latentes mais inemployées, disons en forme de cul-de-sac, ces furtives velléités qui, dans l’enfance, firent de chacun de nous un presque-roi.
Mais son maître lui jeta une boule de papier froissé et elle se mit à rire, avec un bond démesuré, une dépense de sa force inemployée, qui la montrèrent dans toute sa splendeur.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.