inféodation
\ɛ̃.fe.ɔ.da.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“inféodation” is uncommon French (frequency #97,039 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,039
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte par lequel le seigneur aliénait une terre et la donnait pour être tenue de lui en fief.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infeodation · inféodation · French
inféodation · rank #97,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,039
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH informatives
Nearest frequency peer: informatives (-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 « inféodation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- infligea
infligea
2,966 corpus weight
- infligeait
infligeait
2,965 corpus weight
- infléchisse…
infléchissement
2,964 corpus weight
- informatives
informatives
2,963 corpus weight
- inféodation
inféodation
2,962 corpus weight
- initiez
initiez
2,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inféodation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inféodation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fe.ɔ.da.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inféodation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inféodation is uncommon French at frequency #97,039 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.fe.ɔ.da.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for inféodation, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inféodation, spelled I-N-F-É-O-D-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Acte par lequel le seigneur aliénait une terre et la donnait pour être tenue de lui en fief.
- 2Soumission à une autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inféodation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon bureau est couvert de titres, d'actes d'inféodation, de brevets, de charges portant noblesse; …. — (Julie de Quérangal, Philippe de Morvelle, Revue des Deux Mondes, T.2,4, 1833)
Les seigneurs, […] que la prudence de Henri II avait à peine réduits à une espèce d’inféodation à la Couronne, avaient maintenant repris leur ancienne licence dans toute son étendue, ….
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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