ingot
The verdict
“ingot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cornet réalisé en écorce de bouleau, servant pour le sucre d’érable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ingot · ingot · French
ingot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | ingot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ingot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ingot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ingot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nomme ici ingot des cornets de sucre du pays . Serait-ce une corruption du français lingot ?
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.