infernaux
\ɛ̃.fɛʁ.no\
The verdict
“infernaux” is uncommon French (frequency #79,409 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,409
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de infernal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infernaux · infernaux · French
infernaux · rank #79,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,409
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infantino
Nearest frequency peer: infantino (-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 « infernaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indétermina…
indétermination
20,595 corpus weight
- indétrônable
indétrônable
20,594 corpus weight
- infantino
infantino
20,593 corpus weight
- infernaux
infernaux
20,592 corpus weight
- infiltrées
infiltrées
20,591 corpus weight
- inform
inform
20,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « infernaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infernaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɛʁ.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « infernaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
infernaux is uncommon French at frequency #79,409 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.fɛʁ.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de infernal.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for infernaux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is infernaux, spelled I-N-F-E-R-N-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de infernal.
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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