inspires
\ɛ̃s.piʁ\
The verdict
“inspires” is uncommon French (frequency #81,265 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,265
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inspirer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inspires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.piʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inspires” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
inspires is uncommon French at frequency #81,265 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.piʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for inspires in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is inspires, spelled I-N-S-P-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inspirer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de inspirer.
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 “inspires”
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-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃s.piʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.