initial
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,771
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
initial is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est au commencement, qui marque le commencement d’une chose. Pronounced \i.ni.sjal\. It ranks #5,771 in French word frequency. Often confused with initie and initier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | initial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \i.ni.sjal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for initial is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ni.sjal\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,771 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for initial, with forms such as "iintial", "iniital", and "initail". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "initie", "initier", "initiés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is initial, spelled I-N-I-T-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est au commencement, qui marque le commencement d’une chose.
- 2Qualifie les lettres, les syllabes qui commencent un mot.
- 3Qualifie la lettre qui commence un livre, un chapitre ; elle est ordinairement plus grande que les majuscules du texte, et quelquefois accompagnée d’ornements.
- 4Qualifie la vitesse d’un mobile au commencement de sa course, par exemple d’un projectile au sortir de l’arme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iintial,iniital,initail,initiall,initila,inittial,innitial,intiial,niitial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "initial"
Frequency rank: #5,771 in French
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