inexécution
\i.nɛɡ.ze.ky.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“inexécution” is an uncommon French word, ranked #55,365 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,365
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Manque volontaire ou involontaire d’exécution, d’une chose concertée, d’un engagement, d’une mesure administrative législative, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inexécution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.nɛɡ.ze.ky.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inexécution” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inexécution is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.nɛɡ.ze.ky.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,365 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Manque volontaire ou involontaire d’exécution, d’une chose concertée, d’un engagement, d’une mesure administrative législative, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inexécution, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inexécution, spelled I-N-E-X-É-C-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Manque volontaire ou involontaire d’exécution, d’une chose concertée, d’un engagement, d’une mesure administrative législative, etc.
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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Using “inexécution”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-E-X-É-C-U-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.