inspires
\ɛ̃s.piʁ\
The verdict
“inspires” is uncommon French (frequency #81,265 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,265
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de inspirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inspires · inspires · French
inspires · rank #81,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,265
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insistantes
Nearest frequency peer: insistantes (-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 « inspires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insatisfais…
insatisfaisante
18,739 corpus weight
- insensiblem…
insensiblement
18,738 corpus weight
- insistantes
insistantes
18,737 corpus weight
- inspires
inspires
18,736 corpus weight
- integre
integre
18,735 corpus weight
- intensifiant
intensifiant
18,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inspires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « inspires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inspires is uncommon French at frequency #81,265 among 3,561 “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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