ingot
The verdict
“ingot” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cornet réalisé en écorce de bouleau, servant pour le sucre d’érable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ingot” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ingot is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cornet réalisé en écorce de bouleau, servant pour le sucre d’érable.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ingot, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ingot, spelled I-N-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Cornet réalisé en écorce de bouleau, servant pour le sucre d’érable.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “ingot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-G-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.