insolent
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,905
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
insolent is anFrenchadj. It 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. Pronounced \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\. Often confused with isolant and insolente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insolent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for insolent is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,905 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for insolent, with forms such as "innsolent", "inoslent", and "insloent". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "isolant", "insolente", "insultent", and more, 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 insolent, spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui s'oppose à son supérieur, hiérarchique ou autre, de façon moqueuse ; qui perd le respect à force d’effronterie ou de hardiesse excessive.
- 2Celui qui offense la modestie, la pudeur, qui manque aux égards, aux convenances.
- 3Qui en use avec orgueil, avec dureté.
- 4Insolite. On dit encore « bonheur insolent », « fortune insolente », « chance insolente », en parlant d’un bonheur, d’une fortune, d’une chance extraordinaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innsolent,inoslent,insloent,insoelnt,insolennt,insolentt,insoletn,insollent,insolnet,inssolent,isnolent,nisolent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insolent
Misspelling Variants of "insolent"
Frequency rank: #23,905 in French
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