infect
\ɛ̃.fɛkt\
The verdict
“infect” is uncommon French (frequency #51,543 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,543
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dégage une mauvaise odeur par suite de corruption.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infect · infect · French
infect · rank #51,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,543
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inestimables
Nearest frequency peer: inestimables (-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 « infect »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Indra
Indra
48,461 corpus weight
- indétectable
indétectable
48,460 corpus weight
- inestimables
inestimables
48,459 corpus weight
- infect
infect
48,458 corpus weight
- infuser
infuser
48,457 corpus weight
- injustifiab…
injustifiable
48,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « infect » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infect |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɛkt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « infect » en français
Rare enough to double-check
infect is uncommon French at frequency #51,543 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.fɛkt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for infect, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 infect, spelled I-N-F-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Qui dégage une mauvaise odeur par suite de corruption.
- 2Sale, dégoutant.
- 3Odieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des eaux infectes.
Un air infect.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).