Inger
The verdict
“Inger” is uncommon French (frequency #71,609 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,609
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inger · Inger · French
Inger · rank #71,609 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,609
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH informationne…
Nearest frequency peer: informationnelle (-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 « Inger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- infertiles
infertiles
28,395 corpus weight
- influant
influant
28,394 corpus weight
- information…
informationnelle
28,393 corpus weight
- Inger
Inger
28,392 corpus weight
- ini
ini
28,391 corpus weight
- initia
initia
28,390 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Inger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Inger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Inger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Inger is uncommon French at frequency #71,609 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Inger, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Inger, spelled I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Inger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Des rivières, des lacs et des zones humides en bonne santé soutiennent nos sociétés et nos économies, mais sous systématiquement sous-évaluées et négligées », a commenté Inger Andersen, patronne du programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement.
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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