ingrat
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,469
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
ingrat is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’a pas de reconnaissance, qui ne tient pas compte des bienfaits qu’il a reçus. Pronounced \ɛ̃.ɡʁa\. Often confused with INRA and intra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingrat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ɡʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ingrat is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.ɡʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,469 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ingrat, with forms such as "ignrat", "ingart", and "inggrat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "INRA", "intra", "Ingrid", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ingrat, spelled I-N-G-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’a pas de reconnaissance, qui ne tient pas compte des bienfaits qu’il a reçus.
- 2Qui ne récompense pas des dépenses qu’on fait, ou des peines qu’on se donne.
- 3Qui n’est pas favorable au développement du talent, qui fournit peu d’idées, en parlant d’un sujet.
- 4Déplaisant, désagréable, qui inspire la défiance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ignrat,ingart,inggrat,ingratt,ingrrat,ingrta,inngrat,inrgat,nigrat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ingrat"
Frequency rank: #20,469 in French
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