innommable
\i.nɔ.mabl\
The verdict
“innommable” is uncommon French (frequency #58,027 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,027
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut pas être nommé ou qualifié, indicible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-innommable · innommable · French
innommable · rank #58,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,027
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhumée
Nearest frequency peer: inhumée (-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 « innommable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- influenceur
influenceur
41,977 corpus weight
- inhabituell…
inhabituellement
41,976 corpus weight
- inhumée
inhumée
41,975 corpus weight
- innommable
innommable
41,974 corpus weight
- insurrectio…
insurrectionnel
41,973 corpus weight
- intempestifs
intempestifs
41,972 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « innommable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | innommable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nɔ.mabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « innommable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
innommable is uncommon French at frequency #58,027 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.nɔ.mabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for innommable, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is innommable, spelled I-N-N-O-M-M-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut pas être nommé ou qualifié, indicible.
- 2Qui heurte le sens esthétique ou moral de quelqu’un, inqualifiable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how innommable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une sensation innommable.
À une époque où les théologiens redoutaient que le simple fait de les mentionner eût pour conséquence de propager la non-orthodoxie sexuelle comme une maladie contagieuse, et où les manuels des confesseurs enjoignaient aux prêtres de traiter le « péché innommable » avec la plus grande discrétion, le sodomite devint la figure récurrente des homélies.
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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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