infiltrer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,046
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
infiltrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Pénétrer dans le sol ou dans des roches poreuses, en parlant de l’eau. Pronounced \ɛ̃.fil.tʁe\. Often confused with infiltrés and infiltre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infiltrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fil.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for infiltrer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fil.tʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,046 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for infiltrer, with forms such as "ifniltrer", "inffiltrer", and "infilltrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "infiltrés", "infiltre", "infiltrée", 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 infiltrer, spelled I-N-F-I-L-T-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pénétrer dans le sol ou dans des roches poreuses, en parlant de l’eau.
- 2Pénétrer par des interstices ou des fissures, en parlant d’un fluide quelconque (gaz, huile, etc.).
- 3Pénétrer et s’amasser dans un tissu quelconque.
- 4Se diffuser dans un ensemble.
- 5S'introduire dans un groupe (bande, communauté, cartel, ...) par le biais d'un agent - appelé taupe - pour y collecter des informations directes afin de cerner son activité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifniltrer,inffiltrer,infilltrer,infilrter,infilterr,infiltrerr,infiltrre,infiltrrer,infilttrer,infitlrer,inflitrer,inifltrer,innfiltrer,nifiltrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for infiltrer
Misspelling Variants of "infiltrer"
Frequency rank: #21,046 in French
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