inquiet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,979
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
inquiet is anFrenchadj. It means: En parlant d'une émotion ou d'une activité, qui prive du repos moral ou psychologique. Pronounced \ɛ̃.kjɛ\. It ranks #7,979 in French word frequency. Often confused with inuit and inquiète.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inquiet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kjɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inquiet is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.kjɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,979 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for inquiet, with forms such as "innquiet", "inqiuet", and "inqquiet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "inuit", "inquiète", "inquiets", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is inquiet, spelled I-N-Q-U-I-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En parlant d'une émotion ou d'une activité, qui prive du repos moral ou psychologique.
- 2En parlant d'une personne, qui ne connaît pas le repos moral ou psychologique.
- 3Qui craint un événement malheureux.
- 4Qui n’est jamais content de la situation, de l’état où il se trouve, et qui désire toujours quelque changement.
- 5Qui ne trouve pas le repos physique.
- 6Qualifie un sommeil qui est souvent interrompu et qui est troublé par quelque cause physique ou morale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innquiet,inqiuet,inqquiet,inqueit,inquiett,inquite,inuqiet,iqnuiet,niquiet
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Misspelling Variants of "inquiet"
Frequency rank: #7,979 in French
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