inhale
\i.nal\
The verdict
“inhale” is uncommon French (frequency #89,822 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,822
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe inhaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inhale · inhale · French
inhale · rank #89,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,822
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH informatisées
Nearest frequency peer: informatisées (-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 « inhale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- infectant
infectant
10,182 corpus weight
- infléchit
infléchit
10,181 corpus weight
- informatisé…
informatisées
10,180 corpus weight
- inhale
inhale
10,179 corpus weight
- insinuent
insinuent
10,178 corpus weight
- insoupçonna…
insoupçonnable
10,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inhale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.nal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inhale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inhale is uncommon French at frequency #89,822 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for inhale in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is inhale, spelled I-N-H-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe inhaler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe inhaler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe inhaler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe inhaler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe inhaler.
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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