inhabitable
\i.na.bi.tabl\
The verdict
“inhabitable” is uncommon French (frequency #52,120 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,120
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être habité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inhabitable · inhabitable · French
inhabitable · rank #52,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,120
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infographies
Nearest frequency peer: infographies (-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 « inhabitable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inflationni…
inflationniste
47,884 corpus weight
- inflorescen…
inflorescence
47,883 corpus weight
- infographies
infographies
47,882 corpus weight
- inhabitable
inhabitable
47,881 corpus weight
- inhumanité
inhumanité
47,880 corpus weight
- insurmontab…
insurmontables
47,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inhabitable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhabitable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.na.bi.tabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inhabitable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inhabitable is uncommon French at frequency #52,120 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.na.bi.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne peut être habité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for inhabitable, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inhabitable, spelled I-N-H-A-B-I-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être habité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inhabitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinq minutes après, j'étais dans une chambre, qui, toute nue et toute inhabitable qu'elle eût paru à l'homme le moins difficile, était évidemment la plus belle du château.
Ces tentes, dont le bas est garni de mottes de terre, ont toutes un trou au sommet pour laisser un libre essor à la fumée qui, sans cette précaution, les rendrait inhabitables.
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); 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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