inouï
\i.nwi\
The verdict
“inouï” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,859
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on n’a pas ouï.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inoui · inouï · French
inouï · rank #32,859 · 5 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,859
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH injustifiée
Nearest frequency peer: injustifiée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « inouï »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infinitif
infinitif
67,145 corpus weight
- inflammable
inflammable
67,144 corpus weight
- injustifiée
injustifiée
67,143 corpus weight
- inouï
inouï
67,142 corpus weight
- inquiétants
inquiétants
67,140 corpus weight
- institue
institue
67,139 corpus weight
What this shows « inouï » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inouï |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nwi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inouï »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around inouï (IPA \i.nwi\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,859 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for inouï, with forms such as "innouï", "inoïu", and "inuoï". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "insu", "inox", "inuit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is inouï, spelled I-N-O-U-Ï.
Definition
- 1Qu’on n’a pas ouï.
- 2Dont on n’a jamais parlé.
- 3Extraordinaire ; exceptionnel ; incroyable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inouï appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette façon de parler est sans doute de quelque province de France ; car elle est inouïe à la cour, et même il ne me souvient pas de l’avoir ouï dire dans les villes.
[…] que faudra-t-il croire de cet amas de dogmes inouïs aux schismatiques, même les plus audacieux de toute l’antiquité ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innouï
- inoïu
- inuoï
- ionuï
- niouï
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inouï - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).