inspirer
\ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\
The verdict
“inspirer” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,717 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #7,717
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire pénétrer artificiellement de l’air dans les poumons.
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 | inspirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inspirer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inspirer is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,717 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for inspirer, with forms such as "innspirer", "inpsirer", and "insiprer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "inspirez", "inspirera", "inspire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 inspirer, spelled I-N-S-P-I-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire pénétrer artificiellement de l’air dans les poumons.
- 2Faire entrer naturellement de l’air dans ses poumons.
- 3Faire naître dans le cœur, dans l’esprit, quelque mouvement, quelque dessein, quelque pensée.
- 4Recevoir des lumières surnaturelles par une sorte de souffle divin.
- 5Conseiller, diriger, animer.
- 6Être avisé, avoir l'idée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innspirer,inpsirer,insiprer,inspierr,inspirerr,inspirrer,insppirer,insprier,insspirer,isnpirer,nispirer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inspirer - 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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Using “inspirer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-S-P-I-R-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “inspirez” - see the side-by-side comparison. inspirer vs inspirez
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.