infantile
\ɛ̃.fɑ̃.til\
The verdict
“infantile” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,488. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,488
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à l’enfance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infantile · infantile · French
infantile · rank #14,488 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,488
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indicatif
Nearest frequency peer: indicatif (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « infantile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hudson
Hudson
85,516 corpus weight
- incompatible
incompatible
85,515 corpus weight
- indicatif
indicatif
85,514 corpus weight
- infantile
infantile
85,513 corpus weight
- inondation
inondation
85,512 corpus weight
- interpellat…
interpellation
85,511 corpus weight
What this shows « infantile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infantile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɑ̃.til\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infantile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around infantile (IPA \ɛ̃.fɑ̃.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,488 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for infantile, with forms such as "ifnantile", "inafntile", and "infanitle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "infantiles", "infante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is infantile, spelled I-N-F-A-N-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à l’enfance.
- 2Caractérise un comportement digne d’un enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infantile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est d’observation générale, […], que les pays de grande natalité sont aussi des pays de grande mortalité : produisant beaucoup de nouveau-nés, ils sont fortement éprouvés par la mortalité infantile.
Le désir de croire à la manipulation est également puissament attaché aux expériences infantiles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnantile
- inafntile
- infanitle
- infanntile
- infantiel
- infantille
- infantlie
- infanttile
- infatnile
- inffantile
- infnatile
- innfantile
- nifantile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infantile - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "infantile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).