insolence
\ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“insolence” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,902
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de respect qui se manifeste par de l’effronterie et une hardiesse excessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insolence · insolence · French
insolence · rank #22,902 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,902
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insignes
Nearest frequency peer: insignes (-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 « insolence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indécent
indécent
77,102 corpus weight
- informel
informel
77,101 corpus weight
- insignes
insignes
77,100 corpus weight
- insolence
insolence
77,099 corpus weight
- insère
insère
77,098 corpus weight
- interception
interception
77,097 corpus weight
What this shows « insolence » 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 | insolence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insolence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around insolence (IPA \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,902 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for insolence, with forms such as "innsolence", "inoslence", and "insloence". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "insolent", "insolente", "innocence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 insolence, spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de respect qui se manifeste par de l’effronterie et une hardiesse excessive.
- 2Paroles et actions où il y a de l’insolence.
- 3Orgueil offensant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insolence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils prirent des femmes parmi eux, et menèrent une vie agréable jusqu’à l’époque où leur insolence et leur cruauté poussèrent les naturels à en massacrer une partie.
Les infirmiers étaient devenus nettement ironiques et, dans leur attitude, au lieu de la bonhomie ragaillardie qu'il avait su leur laisser prendre, il y eut parfois de l'insolence, presque du mépris.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innsolence
- inoslence
- insloence
- insoelnce
- insolecne
- insolencce
- insolenec
- insolennce
- insollence
- insolnece
- inssolence
- isnolence
- nisolence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insolence - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).