inopérant
\i.nɔ.pe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“inopérant” is uncommon French (frequency #59,376 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,376
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut rien produire, qui ne peut pas avoir d’effet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inoperant · inopérant · French
inopérant · rank #59,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,376
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhumer
Nearest frequency peer: inhumer (-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 « inopérant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- individuali…
individualisée
40,630 corpus weight
- induisant
induisant
40,629 corpus weight
- inflorescen…
inflorescences
40,628 corpus weight
- inhumer
inhumer
40,626 corpus weight
- inopérant
inopérant
40,625 corpus weight
- Jacobson
Jacobson
40,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inopérant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inopérant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nɔ.pe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inopérant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inopérant is uncommon French at frequency #59,376 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.nɔ.pe.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne peut rien produire, qui ne peut pas avoir d’effet.".
inopérant has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inopérant, spelled I-N-O-P-É-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut rien produire, qui ne peut pas avoir d’effet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inopérant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de plus vain, en ce cas, que les conseils de l’expérience. Ils sont « inopérants », comme on dit dans le langage d’aujourd’hui.
Il fallait alors allumer la lumière, avaler à la hâte une inopérante pastille, m’adosser à l’oreiller, me réveiller tout à fait afin de subir dans le front une fatigue et une obsession épuisantes.
Synonyms
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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