ingénuité
\ɛ̃.ʒe.nɥi.te\
The verdict
“ingénuité” is uncommon French (frequency #91,818 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,818
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une personne née libre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ingenuite · ingénuité · French
ingénuité · rank #91,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,818
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infamante
Nearest frequency peer: infamante (-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 « ingénuité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indignez
indignez
8,186 corpus weight
- inductif
inductif
8,185 corpus weight
- infamante
infamante
8,184 corpus weight
- ingénuité
ingénuité
8,183 corpus weight
- inhalateur
inhalateur
8,182 corpus weight
- inhibitrice
inhibitrice
8,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ingénuité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingénuité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒe.nɥi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ingénuité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ingénuité is uncommon French at frequency #91,818 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.ʒe.nɥi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ingénuité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ingénuité, spelled I-N-G-É-N-U-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1État d’une personne née libre.
- 2Franchise pleine de simplicité et quelquefois mêlée de naïveté.
- 3Rôles de jeune fille naïve. On dit plutôt, aujourd’hui, ingénues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ingénuité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neantmoins en ce Royaume il faut obtenir lettres du Prince, qui a tousjours accoustumé de restituer aux hommes de main-morte, & de servile condition, l’estat d’ingénuité, …
L’ingénuité qui s’acquiert par le port d’un anneau d'or chez les Romains, n’étoit qu’une image & une ombre d’ingénuité : ce droit d’anneau d’or ne changeoit pas l’état de l’esclave, il ne le faisoit pas libre ; mais il faisoit qu’il ressembloit à un homme libre , vivant comme un homme libre, & mourant comme un esclave.
This word in other languages
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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