inoculer
\i.nɔ.ky.le\
The verdict
“inoculer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,046 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,046
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Introduire dans l’organisme une substance contenant les germes vivants d’une maladie, en vue d’immuniser le sujet ou de le guérir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inoculer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.nɔ.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inoculer” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
inoculer is uncommon French at frequency #83,046 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.nɔ.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
inoculer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is inoculer, spelled I-N-O-C-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Introduire dans l’organisme une substance contenant les germes vivants d’une maladie, en vue d’immuniser le sujet ou de le guérir.
- 2Injecter.
- 3Introduire dans l’esprit de quelqu’un, généralement avec fourberie et des effets négatifs.
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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Using “inoculer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-O-C-U-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \i.nɔ.ky.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.