ingé
\ɛ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“ingé” is uncommon French (frequency #56,035 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,035
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ingénieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inge · ingé · French
ingé · rank #56,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,035
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indomptables
Nearest frequency peer: indomptables (-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 « ingé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incurvée
incurvée
43,969 corpus weight
- indomptables
indomptables
43,967 corpus weight
- ingé
ingé
43,966 corpus weight
- ingérences
ingérences
43,965 corpus weight
- inintéressa…
inintéressante
43,964 corpus weight
- Insep
Insep
43,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ingé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ingé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ingé is uncommon French at frequency #56,035 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ingénieur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ingé, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ingé, spelled I-N-G-É.
Definition
- 1Ingénieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ingé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En plus c’est un gars super connu, mais c’est vraiment un ingé pas top.
En école d’ingé, la pression est sur celui qui ne boit pas
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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