infliger
\ɛ̃.fli.ʒe\
The verdict
“infliger” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,908
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper quelqu’un d’une peine pour une transgression, une faute, un délit ou un crime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infliger · infliger · French
infliger · rank #15,908 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,908
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indépendantis…
Nearest frequency peer: indépendantiste (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « infliger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inclinaison
inclinaison
84,096 corpus weight
- indiquait
indiquait
84,095 corpus weight
- indépendant…
indépendantiste
84,094 corpus weight
- infliger
infliger
84,093 corpus weight
- insensible
insensible
84,092 corpus weight
- inspirent
inspirent
84,091 corpus weight
What this shows « infliger » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | infliger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fli.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infliger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around infliger (IPA \ɛ̃.fli.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,908 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for infliger, with forms such as "ifnliger", "inffliger", and "infilger". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "influer", "inflige", "incliner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is infliger, spelled I-N-F-L-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frapper quelqu’un d’une peine pour une transgression, une faute, un délit ou un crime.
- 2Faire subir à quelqu'un une chose pénible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infliger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il suffit de rappeler qu'en 1629, un arrêt, provoqué par le procureur-général, interdit aux moines d’infliger aux leurs la prison perpétuelle, l’ In pace, etc. Ces cruautés continuèrent.
Citoyen islandais, M. Jón Kristinsson fut convaincu en 1984 de deux infractions au code de la route par le tribunal correctionnel du district d’Akureyri, qui lui infligea une amende.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnliger
- inffliger
- infilger
- inflgier
- infliegr
- infligerr
- infligger
- infligre
- inflliger
- inlfiger
- innfliger
- nifliger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infliger - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).