inspecte
\ɛ̃s.pɛkt\
The verdict
“inspecte” is uncommon French (frequency #53,414 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,414
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inspecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inspecte · inspecte · French
inspecte · rank #53,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,414
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insomniaque
Nearest frequency peer: insomniaque (-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 « inspecte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insensibili…
insensibilité
46,590 corpus weight
- insistez
insistez
46,589 corpus weight
- insomniaque
insomniaque
46,588 corpus weight
- inspecte
inspecte
46,587 corpus weight
- intemporelle
intemporelle
46,586 corpus weight
- interceptée
interceptée
46,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inspecte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inspecte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.pɛkt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inspecte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inspecte is uncommon French at frequency #53,414 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.pɛkt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inspecte, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inspecte, spelled I-N-S-P-E-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inspecter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inspecter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de inspecter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de inspecter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de inspecter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inspecte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se met debout, ventre et bas-ventre nus, se torche avec un bout de journal, regarde si les passants n’approchent pas, se torche une deuxième fois, inspecte son papier souillé, puis, hop ! recaleçonné, il franchit un muret et disparaît.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).