insécurité

/\ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,179

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

insécurité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible. Pronounced \ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\. It ranks #9,179 in French word frequency. Often confused with inscrite.

Key facts for insécurité
PropertyValue
Headwordinsécurité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#9,179
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for insécurité is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,179 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for insécurité, with forms such as "innsécurité", "inscéurité", and "insecurite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "inscrite", 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 insécurité, spelled I-N-S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: innsécurité,inscéurité,insecurite,inssécurité,inséccurité,insécruité,insécuirté,insécuritté,insécuriét,insécurrité,insécurtié,inséucrité,inéscurité,isnécurité,nisécurité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insécurité

Misspelling Variants of "insécurité"

innsécurité11inscéurité10insecurite10inssécurité11inséccurité11insécruité10insécuirté10insécuritté11
Misspelling Variants of "insécurité"

Frequency rank: #9,179 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "insécurité"?
"insécurité" is spelled I-N-S-É-C-U-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\.
What does "insécurité" mean?
As a noun, "insécurité" means: Manque de sécurité, perception d’une situation menaçante ou imprévisible.
What words are commonly confused with "insécurité"?
"insécurité" is commonly confused with "inscrite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "insécurité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "insécurité" is \ɛ̃.se.ky.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "insécurité" come from?
"insécurité" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.