inhiber
\i.ni.be\
The verdict
“inhiber” is uncommon French (frequency #54,028 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,028
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Empêcher ou ralentir un processus physiologique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inhiber · inhiber · French
inhiber · rank #54,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,028
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ingénue
Nearest frequency peer: ingénue (-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 « inhiber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inexpliqué
inexpliqué
45,976 corpus weight
- inga
inga
45,975 corpus weight
- ingénue
ingénue
45,974 corpus weight
- inhiber
inhiber
45,973 corpus weight
- injoignable
injoignable
45,972 corpus weight
- inodore
inodore
45,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inhiber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhiber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ni.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inhiber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inhiber is uncommon French at frequency #54,028 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ni.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inhiber, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inhiber, spelled I-N-H-I-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Empêcher ou ralentir un processus physiologique.
- 2Empêcher ou ralentir une action quelconque.
- 3Défendre, prohiber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inhiber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'odorat, qui a pour siège les poils olfactifs est, chez lui, rudimentaire, et partiellement inhibé par la vision.
L'extrait stomacal est capable d'hydrolyser la lactoglobuline dénaturée, mais non la forme native. La pepstatin-A, inhibiteur spécifique de la pepsine, inhibe, complètement, les effets du suc gastrique.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).