inexactitude

\i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\

/\i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inexactitude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for inexactitude
PropertyValue
Headwordinexactitude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\
Letters12
Frequency rank#60,100
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « inexactitude » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).inexactitudetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « indécents » (#60,099), « inexpliquées » (#60,101), « indue » (#60,098). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « inexactitude » est au #60,100. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Défaut d’exactitude ou de précision.
  2. 2
    Manque de régularité ou de ponctualité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how inexactitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. […], 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inexactitude"?
"inexactitude" is spelled I-N-E-X-A-C-T-I-T-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\.
What does "inexactitude" mean?
As a noun, "inexactitude" means: Défaut d’exactitude ou de précision.
How do you pronounce "inexactitude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inexactitude" is \i.nɛɡ.zak.ti.tyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "inexactitude", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list