infiltre
\ɛ̃.filtʁ\
The verdict
“infiltre” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,306
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de infiltrer.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infiltre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.filtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “infiltre” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around infiltre (IPA \ɛ̃.filtʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,306 among 142,603 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for infiltre, with forms such as "ifniltre", "inffiltre", and "infilltre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "infiltrer", "infiltrés", "infiltrée", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is infiltre, spelled I-N-F-I-L-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de infiltrer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de infiltrer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de infiltrer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de infiltrer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de infiltrer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifniltre
- inffiltre
- infilltre
- infilrte
- infilter
- infilttre
- infitlre
- inflitre
- inifltre
- innfiltre
- nifiltre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infiltre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “infiltre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-F-I-L-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃.filtʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “infiltrer” - see the side-by-side comparison. infiltre vs infiltrer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.