ineptes
\i.nɛpt\
The verdict
“ineptes” is uncommon French (frequency #69,159 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,159
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de inepte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ineptes · ineptes · French
ineptes · rank #69,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,159
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indépendantis…
Nearest frequency peer: indépendantisme (-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 « ineptes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incommode
incommode
30,845 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialisée
30,844 corpus weight
- indépendant…
indépendantisme
30,843 corpus weight
- ineptes
ineptes
30,842 corpus weight
- informatisée
informatisée
30,841 corpus weight
- inserts
inserts
30,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ineptes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ineptes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nɛpt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ineptes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ineptes is uncommon French at frequency #69,159 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.nɛpt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de inepte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ineptes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ineptes, spelled I-N-E-P-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de inepte.
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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