inhibe
\i.nib\
The verdict
“inhibe” is uncommon French (frequency #55,368 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,368
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inhiber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inhibe · inhibe · French
inhibe · rank #55,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH initialisation
Nearest frequency peer: initialisation (+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 « inhibe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inexécution
inexécution
44,636 corpus weight
- infiltrent
infiltrent
44,635 corpus weight
- inhibe
inhibe
44,633 corpus weight
- initialisat…
initialisation
44,632 corpus weight
- insolation
insolation
44,631 corpus weight
- insoutenabl…
insoutenables
44,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inhibe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhibe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.nib\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inhibe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inhibe is uncommon French at frequency #55,368 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.nib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for inhibe in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 inhibe, spelled I-N-H-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inhiber.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inhiber.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de inhiber.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de inhiber.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de inhiber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inhibe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Suvorexant inhibe l’action des neurotransmetteurs orexines qui jouent un rôle essentiel pour le maintien de l’éveil. Il n’endort pas, il « déséveille ».
Mais « il ne faut pas que cet enjeu inhibe les joueurs », professe Jean-Marc Chanelet, ancien latéral nantais et lyonnais.
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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