inside
\ɪnˈsaɪd\
The verdict
“inside” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,166
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intérieur, à l’intérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inside · inside · French
inside · rank #17,166 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,166
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infériorité
Nearest frequency peer: infériorité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « inside »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infidèle
infidèle
82,838 corpus weight
- infime
infime
82,837 corpus weight
- infériorité
infériorité
82,836 corpus weight
- inside
inside
82,835 corpus weight
- intestin
intestin
82,834 corpus weight
- intimement
intimement
82,833 corpus weight
What this shows « inside » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | inside |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɪnˈsaɪd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inside »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around inside (IPA \ɪnˈsaɪd\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,166 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Intérieur, à l’intérieur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for inside, with forms such as "inisde", "innside", and "insdie". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "invite", "intime", "insiste", 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 inside, spelled I-N-S-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Intérieur, à l’intérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inside appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The inside door handle is broken.
When one list occurs inside another the inner list is said to be nested inside the outer list.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inisde
- innside
- insdie
- insidde
- insied
- insside
- isnide
- niside
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inside - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).