insoumission
\ɛ̃.su.mi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“insoumission” is uncommon French (frequency #54,657 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,657
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comportement de ceux qui refusent une soumission.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insoumission · insoumission · French
insoumission · rank #54,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,657
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insatisfaite
Nearest frequency peer: insatisfaite (-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 « insoumission »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inoculation
inoculation
45,347 corpus weight
- inopportun
inopportun
45,346 corpus weight
- insatisfaite
insatisfaite
45,345 corpus weight
- insoumission
insoumission
45,344 corpus weight
- inéligible
inéligible
45,342 corpus weight
- irrationnels
irrationnels
45,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insoumission » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insoumission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.su.mi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insoumission » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insoumission is uncommon French at frequency #54,657 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.su.mi.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for insoumission, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 insoumission, spelled I-N-S-O-U-M-I-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Comportement de ceux qui refusent une soumission.
- 2Acte d’un subordonné qui désobéit délibérément à un ordre légal.
- 3refus d'un militaire de rejoindre son unité dans les délais impartis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insoumission appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'individualisme libertaire, l'insoumission aux nécessités fondamentales d'une société la dissolvent.
Si des membres du Congrès s’obstinent dans leur insoumission, une procédure pourrait être engagée pour les destituer. Vous pensez que j’exagère ?
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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