inguinal
\ɛ̃.ɡɥi.nal\
The verdict
“inguinal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient ou qui a rapport à l’aine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inguinal · inguinal · French
inguinal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | inguinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ɡɥi.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inguinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inguinal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.ɡɥi.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient ou qui a rapport à l’aine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for inguinal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inguinal, spelled I-N-G-U-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient ou qui a rapport à l’aine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inguinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Glande inguinale.
Bandage inguinal.
This word in other languages
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.