inquiet

/\ɛ̃.kjɛ\/ adj

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.

Key facts for inquiet
PropertyValue
Headwordinquiet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɛ̃.kjɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,979
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of inquiet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    En parlant d'une émotion ou d'une activité, qui prive du repos moral ou psychologique.
  2. 2
    En parlant d'une personne, qui ne connaît pas le repos moral ou psychologique.
  3. 3
    Qui craint un événement malheureux.
  4. 4
    Qui n’est jamais content de la situation, de l’état où il se trouve, et qui désire toujours quelque changement.
  5. 5
    Qui ne trouve pas le repos physique.
  6. 6
    Qualifie 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

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inquiet

Misspelling Variants of "inquiet"

innquiet8inqiuet7inqquiet8inqueit7inquiett8inquite7inuqiet7iqnuiet7
Misspelling Variants of "inquiet"

Frequency rank: #7,979 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inquiet"?
"inquiet" is spelled I-N-Q-U-I-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.kjɛ\.
What does "inquiet" mean?
As an adj, "inquiet" means: En parlant d'une émotion ou d'une activité, qui prive du repos moral ou psychologique.
What words are commonly confused with "inquiet"?
"inquiet" is commonly confused with "inuit", "inquiète", "inquiets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inquiet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inquiet" is \ɛ̃.kjɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inquiet" come from?
"inquiet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.