ingénument
\ɛ̃.ʒe.ny.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ingénument” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière ingénue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ingenument · ingénument · French
ingénument · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingénument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒe.ny.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ingénument » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ingénument is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɛ̃.ʒe.ny.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ingénument, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ingénument, spelled I-N-G-É-N-U-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière ingénue.
- 2Sincèrement, franchement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ingénument appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là se montrent ingénument la grossièreté et la franchise.
En ce cas, tout ce que doit faire un historien, c’est de conter ingénument le fait, sans vouloir pénétrer les motifs.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.