inhibant
\i.ni.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“inhibant” is uncommon French (frequency #85,820 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,820
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui inhibe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inhibant · inhibant · French
inhibant · rank #85,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,820
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infréquentable
Nearest frequency peer: infréquentable (-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 « inhibant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indétectabl…
indétectables
14,184 corpus weight
- infondés
infondés
14,183 corpus weight
- infréquenta…
infréquentable
14,182 corpus weight
- inhibant
inhibant
14,181 corpus weight
- ininterromp…
ininterrompues
14,180 corpus weight
- inintéressa…
inintéressants
14,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inhibant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhibant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ni.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inhibant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inhibant is uncommon French at frequency #85,820 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ni.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui inhibe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inhibant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is inhibant, spelled I-N-H-I-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui inhibe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inhibant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n'y a pas là d’action inhibante, car l’on sait que les Pyrophores sont attirés par les lumières vives qui les éblouissent, ainsi que les autres insectes nocturnes.
À court terme, dans l’urgence, il faut parvenir à maîtriser les réactions émotives et physiologiques embarrassantes et inhibantes.
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Antonyms
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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