inénarrable
\i.ne.na.ʁabl\
The verdict
“inénarrable” is uncommon French (frequency #74,107 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,107
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être narré ou raconté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inenarrable · inénarrable · French
inénarrable · rank #74,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,107
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inutilisées
Nearest frequency peer: inutilisées (-2 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 « inénarrable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interpelé
interpelé
25,900 corpus weight
- interpositi…
interposition
25,899 corpus weight
- intrication
intrication
25,897 corpus weight
- inutilisées
inutilisées
25,896 corpus weight
- inénarrable
inénarrable
25,894 corpus weight
- Ivanovitch
Ivanovitch
25,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inénarrable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inénarrable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ne.na.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inénarrable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inénarrable is uncommon French at frequency #74,107 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ne.na.ʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for inénarrable, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inénarrable, spelled I-N-É-N-A-R-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être narré ou raconté.
- 2Cocasse ; impayable ; absurde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inénarrable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une soirée délicieuse : dans le firmament d’une douceur et d’une pureté inénarrables, la lune gravitait solitaire, chassant devant elle une multitude de petits nuages floconneux […].
Par contre, quand on aime, on est complètement présent dans ces inénarrables instants de passion.
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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