insider
\in.saj.dœʁ\
The verdict
“insider” is uncommon French (frequency #51,546 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,546
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initié, homme du sérail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insider · insider · French
insider · rank #51,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,546
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH injustifiable
Nearest frequency peer: injustifiable (-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 « insider »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- infect
infect
48,458 corpus weight
- infuser
infuser
48,457 corpus weight
- injustifiab…
injustifiable
48,456 corpus weight
- insider
insider
48,455 corpus weight
- insultante
insultante
48,454 corpus weight
- interro
interro
48,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insider » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insider |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \in.saj.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insider » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insider is uncommon French at frequency #51,546 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \in.saj.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for insider in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is insider, spelled I-N-S-I-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Initié, homme du sérail.
- 2Travailleur en place.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insider appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour boucler la présentation de ses preuves au mois de février avant de laisser la parole aux victimes et à la défense, le procureur souhaite appeler encore quatre témoins, considérés comme des « insiders », c’est-à-dire d’anciens alliés de Jean-Pierre Bemba à l’époque du crime reproché.
Parce que, souligne un insider, elle est la première informée de ce qui se passe au niveau européen.
Antonyms
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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