insolence
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,902
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
insolence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manque de respect qui se manifeste par de l’effronterie et une hardiesse excessive. Pronounced \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃s\. Often confused with insolent and insolente.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for insolence is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,902 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for insolence, with forms such as "innsolence", "inoslence", and "insloence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "insolent", "insolente", "innocence", 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 insolence, spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innsolence,inoslence,insloence,insoelnce,insolecne,insolencce,insolenec,insolennce,insollence,insolnece,inssolence,isnolence,nisolence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insolence
Misspelling Variants of "insolence"
Frequency rank: #22,902 in French
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