inhibiteur
\i.ni.bi.tœʁ\
The verdict
“inhibiteur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,001. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,001
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui inhibe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inhibiteur · inhibiteur · French
inhibiteur · rank #36,001 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,001
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhabituelles
Nearest frequency peer: inhabituelles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « inhibiteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inexact
inexact
64,003 corpus weight
- inexistantes
inexistantes
64,002 corpus weight
- inhabituell…
inhabituelles
64,001 corpus weight
- inhibiteur
inhibiteur
64,000 corpus weight
- inspectrice
inspectrice
63,999 corpus weight
- inspirait
inspirait
63,998 corpus weight
What this shows « inhibiteur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhibiteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ni.bi.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #36,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inhibiteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around inhibiteur (IPA \i.ni.bi.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,001 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui inhibe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for inhibiteur, with forms such as "ihnibiteur", "inhbiiteur", and "inhhibiteur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "inhibiteurs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is inhibiteur, spelled I-N-H-I-B-I-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui inhibe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inhibiteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ont tout d’abord utilisé des cultures de cellules nerveuses et ont montré qu’ils pouvaient visualiser nettement les synapses inhibitrices et excitatrices en plaçant les cellules sous une lumière bleue.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ihnibiteur
- inhbiiteur
- inhhibiteur
- inhibbiteur
- inhibietur
- inhibiteru
- inhibiteurr
- inhibitteur
- inhibituer
- inhibtieur
- inhiibteur
- inihbiteur
- innhibiteur
- nihibiteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inhibiteur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).