injurier
\ɛ̃.ʒy.ʁje\
The verdict
“injurier” is uncommon French (frequency #60,103 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,103
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offenser quelqu’un par des paroles injurieuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-injurier · injurier · French
injurier · rank #60,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,103
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhabité
Nearest frequency peer: inhabité (-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 « injurier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inexactitude
inexactitude
39,901 corpus weight
- inexpliquées
inexpliquées
39,900 corpus weight
- inhabité
inhabité
39,899 corpus weight
- injurier
injurier
39,898 corpus weight
- insertions
insertions
39,897 corpus weight
- insistons
insistons
39,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « injurier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | injurier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒy.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « injurier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
injurier is uncommon French at frequency #60,103 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.ʒy.ʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Offenser quelqu’un par des paroles injurieuses.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for injurier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is injurier, spelled I-N-J-U-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Offenser quelqu’un par des paroles injurieuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how injurier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous croisâmes ce jour-là un bateau de Hébrides monté par des gueules plates que nous injuriâmes copieusement ; […].
On s’injuriait à table. On injuriait même le supérieur, homme emporté mais faible. On lui rappelait à l’occasion que son père avait été pendu.
Synonyms
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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