inquiry
The verdict
“inquiry” is uncommon French (frequency #91,822 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,822
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enquête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inquiry · inquiry · French
inquiry · rank #91,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,822
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inhibée
Nearest frequency peer: inhibée (-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 « inquiry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inhalateur
inhalateur
8,182 corpus weight
- inhibitrice
inhibitrice
8,181 corpus weight
- inhibée
inhibée
8,180 corpus weight
- inquiry
inquiry
8,179 corpus weight
- insomnia
insomnia
8,178 corpus weight
- insonorisé
insonorisé
8,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inquiry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inquiry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inquiry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inquiry is uncommon French at frequency #91,822 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for inquiry in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is inquiry, spelled I-N-Q-U-I-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Enquête.
- 2Question.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inquiry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This affair demands a formal inquiry before it can be forgotten.
I have one more inquiry before I can decide about signing up for your service.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).