insolent

\ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\

/\ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“insolent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,905
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s'oppose à son supérieur, hiérarchique ou autre, de façon moqueuse ; qui perd le respect à force d’effronterie ou de hardiesse excessive.

Corpus desk

Index FR-insolent · insolent · French

insolent · rank #23,905 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,905
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH initiateur

Nearest frequency peer: initiateur (-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 « insolent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « insolent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

insolent vs isolant
75% similar
insolent vs insolente
89% similar
insolent vs insultent
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for insolent
PropertyValue
Headwordinsolent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,905
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insolent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.insolentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « initiateur » (#23,904), « intenable » (#23,906), « infectieuses » (#23,903). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « insolent » est au #23,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around insolent (IPA \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,905 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for insolent, with forms such as "innsolent", "inoslent", and "insloent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "isolant", "insolente", "insultent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 insolent, spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui s'oppose à son supérieur, hiérarchique ou autre, de façon moqueuse ; qui perd le respect à force d’effronterie ou de hardiesse excessive.
  2. 2
    Celui qui offense la modestie, la pudeur, qui manque aux égards, aux convenances.
  3. 3
    Qui en use avec orgueil, avec dureté.
  4. 4
    Insolite. On dit encore « bonheur insolent », « fortune insolente », « chance insolente », en parlant d’un bonheur, d’une fortune, d’une chance extraordinaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how insolent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un élève insolent.
  2. Pour la troisième fois, et sur un ton intolérablement agressif, il réitéra son insolente question. Un silence gros de danger suivit.

This word in other languages

insolent(English)insolente(Español)frech(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • innsolent
  • inoslent
  • insloent
  • insoelnt
  • insolennt
  • insolentt
  • insoletn
  • insollent
  • insolnet
  • inssolent
  • isnolent
  • nisolent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insolent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

innsolent1inoslent2insloent2insoelnt2insolennt1insolentt1insoletn2insollent1
Edit distance from "insolent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "insolent"?
"insolent" is spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\.
What does "insolent" mean?
As an adjective, "insolent" means: Qui s'oppose à son supérieur, hiérarchique ou autre, de façon moqueuse ; qui perd le respect à force d’effronterie ou de hardiesse excessive.
What words are commonly confused with "insolent"?
"insolent" is commonly confused with "isolant", "insolente", "insultent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "insolent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "insolent" is \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "insolent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "insolent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list