inquiéter
\ɛ̃.kje.te\
The verdict
“inquiéter” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,516
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre inquiet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inquieter · inquiéter · French
inquiéter · rank #6,516 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,516
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indiquant
Nearest frequency peer: indiquant (-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 « inquiéter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- historiens
historiens
93,489 corpus weight
- idem
idem
93,488 corpus weight
- indiquant
indiquant
93,486 corpus weight
- inquiéter
inquiéter
93,485 corpus weight
- INSEE
INSEE
93,484 corpus weight
- intéressants
intéressants
93,482 corpus weight
What this shows « inquiéter » 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 | inquiéter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kje.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inquiéter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around inquiéter (IPA \ɛ̃.kje.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,516 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for inquiéter, with forms such as "innquiéter", "inqiuéter", and "inqquiéter". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "inquiets", "inquiètes", "inquiétez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 inquiéter, spelled I-N-Q-U-I-É-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre inquiet.
- 2Ne pas laisser en repos.
- 3Troubler quelqu’un dans la possession d’une chose, lui faire un procès, lui chercher querelle.
- 4S'occuper ; se préoccuper ; être inquiet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inquiéter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les subsistances, dans ce moment, inquiètent le gouvernement, elles inquiètent les gouvernés, elles inquiètent en particulier les fermiers ces derniers sont indécis sur le parti qu'ils doivent prendre pour la vente de leurs grains.
Vers 15 heures, alors que le défilé de la débâcle continuait, un bruit d'avions inquiéta la population. Trois ou quatre chasseurs bombardiers survolaient la ville, et les habitants gagnèrent en hâte les abris.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innquiéter
- inqiuéter
- inqquiéter
- inquieter
- inquitéer
- inquiéetr
- inquiéterr
- inquiétre
- inquiétter
- inquéiter
- inuqiéter
- iqnuiéter
- niquiéter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inquiéter - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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