inopinément
\i.nɔ.pi.ne.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“inopinément” is uncommon French (frequency #56,675 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,675
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière inopinée, imprévue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inopinement · inopinément · French
inopinément · rank #56,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,675
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH informera
Nearest frequency peer: informera (-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 « inopinément »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inexpliqués
inexpliqués
43,329 corpus weight
- infaillibles
infaillibles
43,328 corpus weight
- informera
informera
43,327 corpus weight
- inopinément
inopinément
43,326 corpus weight
- insinuant
insinuant
43,325 corpus weight
- interceptées
interceptées
43,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inopinément » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inopinément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \i.nɔ.pi.ne.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inopinément » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inopinément is uncommon French at frequency #56,675 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \i.nɔ.pi.ne.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière inopinée, imprévue.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inopinément, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inopinément, spelled I-N-O-P-I-N-É-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière inopinée, imprévue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inopinément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ô ciel ! de quel poison Sens-je inopinément attaquer ma raison ?
Quelque charge que l’on vous donne, jamais vous ne cesserez de prétendre ; ce que vous croyez la fin de votre course, quand vous y serez arrivés, vous ouvrira inopinément une nouvelle carrière.
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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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