insuffizient
\ˈɪnzʊfit͡si̯ɛnt\
The verdict
“insuffizient” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insuffisant, inadéquat, surtout en qualité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insuffizient · insuffizient · French
insuffizient · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insuffizient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɪnzʊfit͡si̯ɛnt\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
insuffizient is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈɪnzʊfit͡si̯ɛnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for insuffizient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is insuffizient, spelled I-N-S-U-F-F-I-Z-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Insuffisant, inadéquat, surtout en qualité.
- 2Insuffisant : atteint d’insuffisance, ne remplissant plus suffisamment sa fonction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insuffizient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im Hinblick auf das budgetrechtliche Kontrollinstrumentarium wird angeführt, es sei ebenfalls wegen der insuffizienten Informationsaufbereitung und des beschränkten Informationsumfangs des kameralistischen Rechnungssystems nicht voll entwickelt.
Beatmung, gegebenenfalls unter zusätzlicher Sauerstoffzufuhr, wird dann angewandt, wenn die Spontanatmung ausfällt (Apnoe) oder insuffizient wird.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.