inexactitude
\i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\
The verdict
“inexactitude” is uncommon French (frequency #60,100 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,100
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut d’exactitude ou de précision.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inexactitude · inexactitude · French
inexactitude · rank #60,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,100
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indécents
Nearest frequency peer: indécents (-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 « inexactitude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indu
indu
39,904 corpus weight
- indue
indue
39,903 corpus weight
- indécents
indécents
39,902 corpus weight
- inexactitude
inexactitude
39,901 corpus weight
- inexpliquées
inexpliquées
39,900 corpus weight
- inhabité
inhabité
39,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inexactitude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inexactitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inexactitude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inexactitude is uncommon French at frequency #60,100 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inexactitude, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is inexactitude, spelled I-N-E-X-A-C-T-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Défaut d’exactitude ou de précision.
- 2Manque de régularité ou de ponctualité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inexactitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le père Clément Pérès avait cru découvrir de légères inexactitudes dans ce dernier voyage ; il les avait marquées sur des feuilles volantes, et il me fit présent de ces notes.
[…], il narra, en une esquisse sommaire et avec les omissions et les inexactitudes naturelles à son genre de mentalité, la série de ses aventures.
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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