innu
\i.nu\
The verdict
“innu” is uncommon French (frequency #75,787 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,787
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée par les Innus, peuple autochtone de l'est du Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-innu · innu · French
innu · rank #75,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,787
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ingérés
Nearest frequency peer: ingérés (-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 « innu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indolence
indolence
24,217 corpus weight
- indélicats
indélicats
24,216 corpus weight
- ingérés
ingérés
24,215 corpus weight
- innu
innu
24,214 corpus weight
- inouïes
inouïes
24,213 corpus weight
- Insiders
Insiders
24,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « innu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | innu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.nu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « innu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
innu is uncommon French at frequency #75,787 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.nu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée par les Innus, peuple autochtone de l'est du Canada.".
innu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is innu, spelled I-N-N-U.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée par les Innus, peuple autochtone de l'est du Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how innu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour certains, cri, attikamek, innu et naskapi ne sont que des dialectes d’une même langue. Mais les peuples qui les parlent tiennent à marquer leurs différences : Cris et Naskapis ont adopté l’écriture syllabique, alors que les autres utilisent l’alphabet latin. — (L'actualité, 17 février 2007)
Et de plus en plus souvent, les parents préfèrent que leurs enfants grandissent en français ou en anglais, les langues de l’émancipation, qui leur permettront de trouver un bon emploi. Même si Ghislain Picard s’exprime couramment en innu et qu’il a la chance de pouvoir utiliser quotidiennement sa langue dans son travail, il ne l’a transmise à aucun de ses…
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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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