ingurgiter
\ɛ̃.ɡyʁ.ʒi.te\
The verdict
“ingurgiter” is uncommon French (frequency #57,338 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,338
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduire dans la gorge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ingurgiter · ingurgiter · French
ingurgiter · rank #57,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,338
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH institutionna…
Nearest frequency peer: institutionnalisé (+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 « ingurgiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inferno
inferno
42,666 corpus weight
- inférence
inférence
42,665 corpus weight
- ingurgiter
ingurgiter
42,663 corpus weight
- institution…
institutionnalisé
42,662 corpus weight
- instrumenta…
instrumentalisé
42,661 corpus weight
- intente
intente
42,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ingurgiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingurgiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ɡyʁ.ʒi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ingurgiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ingurgiter is uncommon French at frequency #57,338 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.ɡyʁ.ʒi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ingurgiter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ingurgiter, spelled I-N-G-U-R-G-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Introduire dans la gorge.
- 2Boire, avaler avidement.
- 3Apprendre avec difficulté ; apprendre ou mémoriser beaucoup de choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ingurgiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui ingurgita cette potion.
Et il fit raison à son hôte en avalant une rasade égale à celle que l’ermite avait ingurgitée.
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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