INRA
\in.ʁa\
The verdict
“INRA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,663) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement public français, fondé en 1946, chargé des recherches agronomiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inra · INRA · French
INRA · rank #21,663 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,663
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inimaginable
Nearest frequency peer: inimaginable (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « INRA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- induire
induire
78,342 corpus weight
- inimaginable
inimaginable
78,339 corpus weight
- INRA
INRA
78,338 corpus weight
- inscris
inscris
78,337 corpus weight
- insolites
insolites
78,336 corpus weight
- instaure
instaure
78,335 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « INRA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | INRA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \in.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « INRA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for INRA is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "ira", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \in.ʁa\. Frequency #21,663 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Établissement public français, fondé en 1946, chargé des recherches agronomiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for INRA, with forms such as "inar", "innra", and "inrra". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "ira", "IRL", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is INRA, spelled I-N-R-A.
Definition
- 1Établissement public français, fondé en 1946, chargé des recherches agronomiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how INRA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les chercheurs de l’INRA ou des Instituts Techniques, l’agrobiologie ne semble pas en mesure de remplir les objectifs fixés par la Politique Agricole Commune jusqu'en 1992 : assurer l'autosuffisance alimentaire de la France.
Pour relever le défi, l’ancien président du centre INRA préconise une organisation semblable aux semenciers qui savent mutuelliser leurs connaissances tout en restant en compétition : une communication bien organisée pourrait alimenter une concurrence positive et créer l’émulation de la génopole toulousaine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inar
- innra
- inrra
- nira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of INRA - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).