inspiration

/\ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,158

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

inspiration is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle l’air entre dans le poumon ; mouvement opposé à l’expiration. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,158 in French word frequency. Often confused with instigation and inspirations.

Key facts for inspiration
PropertyValue
Headwordinspiration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,158
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of inspiration in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for inspiration is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,158 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for inspiration, with forms such as "innspiration", "inpsiration", and "insipration". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "instigation", "inspirations", 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 inspiration, spelled I-N-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle l’air entre dans le poumon ; mouvement opposé à l’expiration.
  2. 2
    Sorte de souffle divin qui pousse à tel ou tel acte.
  3. 3
    Acte de stimulation de l’intellect, des émotions et de la créativité à partir d’une influence.
  4. 4
    Idée créatrice, élan créateur d'origine mystérieuse.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: innspiration,inpsiration,insipration,inspiartion,inspiraiton,inspiratino,inspirationn,inspiratoin,inspirattion,inspirration,inspirtaion,insppiration,inspriation,insspiration,isnpiration,nispiration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inspiration

Misspelling Variants of "inspiration"

innspiration12inpsiration11insipration11inspiartion11inspiraiton11inspiratino11inspirationn12inspiratoin11
Misspelling Variants of "inspiration"

Frequency rank: #4,158 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inspiration"?
"inspiration" is spelled I-N-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "inspiration" mean?
As a noun, "inspiration" means: Action par laquelle l’air entre dans le poumon ; mouvement opposé à l’expiration.
What words are commonly confused with "inspiration"?
"inspiration" is commonly confused with "instigation", "inspirations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inspiration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inspiration" is \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inspiration" come from?
"inspiration" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.