inspecter
\ɛ̃s.pɛk.te\
The verdict
“inspecter” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,591. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,591
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Examiner avec attention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inspecter · inspecter · French
inspecter · rank #22,591 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,591
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incohérence
Nearest frequency peer: incohérence (-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 « inspecter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- imaginait
imaginait
77,413 corpus weight
- impulsions
impulsions
77,412 corpus weight
- incohérence
incohérence
77,411 corpus weight
- inspecter
inspecter
77,410 corpus weight
- interrogée
interrogée
77,409 corpus weight
- introduisant
introduisant
77,408 corpus weight
What this shows « inspecter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inspecter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.pɛk.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inspecter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around inspecter (IPA \ɛ̃s.pɛk.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,591 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for inspecter, with forms such as "innspecter", "inpsecter", and "insepcter". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "inspecteur", "inspecteurs", "insecte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inspecter, spelled I-N-S-P-E-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Examiner avec attention.
- 2Examiner avec autorité, ou avec une mission spéciale d’une autorité compétente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inspecter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, cela fait, il acheva de se déshabiller, non sans inspecter les poches de ses autres vêtements, à seule fin de s'assurer qu'on n'y avait rien fourré à son insu.
Au jour, j’inspecte minutieusement les avaries et consolide les réparations provisoires de la nuit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innspecter
- inpsecter
- insepcter
- inspceter
- inspeccter
- inspecetr
- inspecterr
- inspectre
- inspectter
- inspetcer
- insppecter
- insspecter
- isnpecter
- nispecter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inspecter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "inspecter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).