insensibilité
\ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“insensibilité” is uncommon French (frequency #53,411 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,411
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence de sensibilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insensibilite · insensibilité · French
insensibilité · rank #53,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,411
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insistez
Nearest frequency peer: insistez (+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 « insensibilité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incorruptib…
incorruptible
46,594 corpus weight
- inexpérimen…
inexpérimentés
46,592 corpus weight
- insensibili…
insensibilité
46,590 corpus weight
- insistez
insistez
46,589 corpus weight
- insomniaque
insomniaque
46,588 corpus weight
- inspecte
inspecte
46,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insensibilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insensibilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insensibilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insensibilité is uncommon French at frequency #53,411 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Absence de sensibilité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for insensibilité 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is insensibilité, spelled I-N-S-E-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Absence de sensibilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insensibilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a dit une grande vérité lorsqu’on a posé en principe que toute la science du jockey consistait à faire supporter tout son poids par la bouche de son cheval ; mais on n’a pas parlé de l’insensibilité des barres que l’on produisait par cette manœuvre, […].
— Deux sortes de personnes contractent nécessairement beaucoup d’insensibilité : les chirurgiens, les prêtres. A voir toujours souffrir et mourir, on meurt peu à peu soi-même dans les facultés sympathiques.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).