infertile
\ɛ̃.fɛʁ.til\
The verdict
“infertile” is uncommon French (frequency #84,898 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,898
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas fertile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infertile · infertile · French
infertile · rank #84,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,898
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inextricables
Nearest frequency peer: inextricables (-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 « infertile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incrustent
incrustent
15,106 corpus weight
- indécises
indécises
15,105 corpus weight
- inextricabl…
inextricables
15,104 corpus weight
- infertile
infertile
15,103 corpus weight
- insatisfais…
insatisfaisant
15,101 corpus weight
- instruisent
instruisent
15,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « infertile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infertile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɛʁ.til\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « infertile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
infertile is uncommon French at frequency #84,898 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.fɛʁ.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
infertile has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is infertile, spelled I-N-F-E-R-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas fertile.
- 2Qualifie un sujet, une matière qui fournit peu de choses à dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infertile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si les engrais verts donnent de fort bons résultats dans les sols infertiles et épuisés, à plus forte raison sont-ils avantageux dans les sols fertiles et riches.
— Un esprit infertile.
Synonyms
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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