inga
\ɛ̃.ɡa\
The verdict
“inga” is uncommon French (frequency #54,026 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,026
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’une écorce d’Amérique qui est astringente et tonique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inga · inga · French
inga · rank #54,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,026
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inexpliqué
Nearest frequency peer: inexpliqué (-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 « inga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indexée
indexée
45,978 corpus weight
- indulgente
indulgente
45,977 corpus weight
- inexpliqué
inexpliqué
45,976 corpus weight
- inga
inga
45,975 corpus weight
- ingénue
ingénue
45,974 corpus weight
- inhiber
inhiber
45,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inga is uncommon French at frequency #54,026 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’une écorce d’Amérique qui est astringente et tonique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for inga, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is inga, spelled I-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Nom d’une écorce d’Amérique qui est astringente et tonique.
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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