inoculer
\i.nɔ.ky.le\
The verdict
“inoculer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,046 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,046
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduire dans l’organisme une substance contenant les germes vivants d’une maladie, en vue d’immuniser le sujet ou de le guérir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inoculer · inoculer · French
inoculer · rank #83,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,046
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH innovatrice
Nearest frequency peer: innovatrice (-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 « inoculer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inconséquent
inconséquent
16,958 corpus weight
- indiscrètes
indiscrètes
16,957 corpus weight
- innovatrice
innovatrice
16,956 corpus weight
- inoculer
inoculer
16,955 corpus weight
- inoxydables
inoxydables
16,954 corpus weight
- insectivores
insectivores
16,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inoculer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « inoculer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inoculer is uncommon French at frequency #83,046 among 3,561 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inoculer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— M. le Duc de Normandie ayant été inoculé le jeudi 15 de ce mois, la petite vérole locale s'est développée trois jours après aux endroits des piqûres. Du 7 au 8 de la maladie, s'est manifesté la fièvre d'invasion, qui annonce le passage de la matière variolique dans le sang.
Réciproquement, et c'est l’argument sur lequel insiste Warlomont, si l’on avait inoculé vaccinalement la tuberculose, c’est au point d’insertion qu’apparaîtrait d’abord le tubercule, comme y apparaît le chancre syphilitique; les milliers d’expériences faites sur les animaux ont rendu cette loi tout à fait vulgaire.
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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