insolents
\ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“insolents” is uncommon French (frequency #66,017 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,017
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de insolent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insolents · insolents · French
insolents · rank #66,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,017
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH iniquités
Nearest frequency peer: iniquités (-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 « insolents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indubitable
indubitable
33,987 corpus weight
- infiniti
infiniti
33,986 corpus weight
- iniquités
iniquités
33,985 corpus weight
- insolents
insolents
33,984 corpus weight
- installaient
installaient
33,983 corpus weight
- intercéder
intercéder
33,982 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insolents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insolents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insolents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insolents is uncommon French at frequency #66,017 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de insolent.".
insolents doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is insolents, spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de 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.
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