infatué
\ɛ̃.fa.tɥe\
The verdict
“infatué” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est si bien pénétré de ses propres mérites ou de ceux d’une chose ou d’une autre personne qu’il ne peut qu’en être désabusé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infatue · infatué · French
infatué · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infatué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fa.tɥe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
infatué is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.fa.tɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est si bien pénétré de ses propres mérites ou de ceux d’une chose ou d’une autre personne qu’il ne peut qu’en être désabusé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for infatué, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is infatué, spelled I-N-F-A-T-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est si bien pénétré de ses propres mérites ou de ceux d’une chose ou d’une autre personne qu’il ne peut qu’en être désabusé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infatué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est infatué de sa personne.
Il est trop infatué de son mince talent.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.