inférieur
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,764
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
inférieur is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est placé au-dessous, en bas. Pronounced \ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\. It ranks #3,764 in French word frequency. Often confused with intérieur and ingénieur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inférieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inférieur is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,764 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for inférieur, with forms such as "ifnérieur", "inferieur", and "infférieur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "intérieur", "ingénieur", "intérieure", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is inférieur, spelled I-N-F-É-R-I-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est placé au-dessous, en bas.
- 2Qualifiait les planètes qui, comparées à la terre, sont plus rapprochées du soleil.
- 3Qualifiait la partie d’un pays qui est la plus éloignée de la source d’un fleuve, ou la plus voisine de la mer ;
- 4Qui est au-dessous d’une personne ou d’une chose en rang, en dignité, en mérite, en forces, en valeur.
- 5Plus petit ou égal. Le symbole : ≤ ou ⩽. Note d’usage : En mathématiques ce mot comprend l’égalité, mais ce n’est pas le cas du langage courant et de l’informatique. Pour éviter la confusion possible, on peut dire inférieur ou égal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnérieur,inferieur,infférieur,infréieur,inféireur,inféreiur,inférieru,inférieurr,infériuer,inférrieur,innférieur,inéfrieur,niférieur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inférieur
Misspelling Variants of "inférieur"
Frequency rank: #3,764 in French
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