inlet
\ˈɪn.lɛt\
The verdict
“inlet” is uncommon French (frequency #98,096 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,096
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crique, fjord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inlet · inlet · French
inlet · rank #98,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,096
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inis
Nearest frequency peer: inis (-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 « inlet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ininterromp…
ininterrompus
1,907 corpus weight
- inis
inis
1,906 corpus weight
- inlet
inlet
1,905 corpus weight
- inscrirait
inscrirait
1,904 corpus weight
- installerait
installerait
1,903 corpus weight
- interdépend…
interdépendantes
1,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inlet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inlet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɪn.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inlet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inlet is uncommon French at frequency #98,096 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɪn.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Crique, fjord.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for inlet, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inlet, spelled I-N-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Crique, fjord.
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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