initia
\i.ni.sja\
The verdict
“initia” is uncommon French (frequency #71,611 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,611
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de initier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-initia · initia · French
initia · rank #71,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,611
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ini
Nearest frequency peer: ini (-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 « initia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- information…
informationnelle
28,393 corpus weight
- Inger
Inger
28,392 corpus weight
- ini
ini
28,391 corpus weight
- initia
initia
28,390 corpus weight
- injectable
injectable
28,389 corpus weight
- inspireront
inspireront
28,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « initia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | initia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.ni.sja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « initia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
initia is uncommon French at frequency #71,611 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.ni.sja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de initier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for initia, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 initia, spelled I-N-I-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de initier.
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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