insurger
\ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“insurger” is uncommon French (frequency #55,372 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,372
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exciter, pousser à la révolte, à l'insurrection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insurger · insurger · French
insurger · rank #55,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,372
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insoutenables
Nearest frequency peer: insoutenables (-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 « insurger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- initialisat…
initialisation
44,632 corpus weight
- insolation
insolation
44,631 corpus weight
- insoutenabl…
insoutenables
44,630 corpus weight
- insurger
insurger
44,629 corpus weight
- interdirait
interdirait
44,628 corpus weight
- intermitten…
intermittentes
44,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insurger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insurger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insurger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insurger is uncommon French at frequency #55,372 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for insurger in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is insurger, spelled I-N-S-U-R-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exciter, pousser à la révolte, à l'insurrection.
- 2Se soulever, se révolter contre un pouvoir établi ou contre une autorité arbitraire.
- 3S'opposer, vitupérer contre quelque chose ou quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insurger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La proximité du Yucatan paraît permettre au Mexique d’insurger cette île quand bon lui semblera.
Il perdit son père en 1765 ; intenta, à l'occasion de son héritage, un procès à l'État ; mécontent des juges, il insurgea les ouvriers d'Alnwick, se mit à leur tête, brisa les barrières de péage qui fermaient les routes du pays, fut poursuivi, s'esquiva, revint pour liquider définitivement son patrimoine vite absorbé au métier de démocrate, peu lucratif e…
Synonyms
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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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