insatisfaisant
\ɛ̃.sa.tis.fə.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“insatisfaisant” is uncommon French (frequency #84,900 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,900
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne contente pas, qui ne satisfait pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insatisfaisant · insatisfaisant · French
insatisfaisant · rank #84,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,900
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH instruisent
Nearest frequency peer: instruisent (+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 « insatisfaisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indécises
indécises
15,105 corpus weight
- inextricabl…
inextricables
15,104 corpus weight
- infertile
infertile
15,103 corpus weight
- insatisfais…
insatisfaisant
15,101 corpus weight
- instruisent
instruisent
15,100 corpus weight
- interrogeais
interrogeais
15,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insatisfaisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insatisfaisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sa.tis.fə.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #84,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insatisfaisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insatisfaisant is uncommon French at frequency #84,900 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.sa.tis.fə.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne contente pas, qui ne satisfait pas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for insatisfaisant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is insatisfaisant, spelled I-N-S-A-T-I-S-F-A-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ne contente pas, qui ne satisfait pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how insatisfaisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette excuse est insatisfaisante.
Antonyms
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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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