ingère
\ɛ̃.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“ingère” is uncommon French (frequency #64,533 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,533
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ingérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ingere · ingère · French
ingère · rank #64,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,533
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhaler
Nearest frequency peer: inhaler (+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 « ingère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inexplicabl…
inexplicablement
35,472 corpus weight
- infaisable
infaisable
35,471 corpus weight
- informons
informons
35,470 corpus weight
- ingère
ingère
35,468 corpus weight
- inhaler
inhaler
35,467 corpus weight
- injecteurs
injecteurs
35,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ingère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ingère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ingère is uncommon French at frequency #64,533 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ingère, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ingère, spelled I-N-G-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ingérer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ingérer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ingérer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ingérer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de ingérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ingère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par conséquent, si le médicament est excessivement divisé, il peut se globuliser dans le sang, et, si on l’ingère au moment du repas, il peut se mêler au chyme et lui associer les éléments réparateurs de l’économie.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).