inuit
\i.nɥit\
The verdict
“inuit” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,448
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit du peuple des Inuit, qui vivent dans l’Arctique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inuit · inuit · French
inuit · rank #36,448 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,448
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH internets
Nearest frequency peer: internets (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « inuit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- insalubre
insalubre
63,557 corpus weight
- intentionne…
intentionnelle
63,556 corpus weight
- internets
internets
63,554 corpus weight
- inuit
inuit
63,553 corpus weight
- inventivité
inventivité
63,552 corpus weight
- irrationnel…
irrationnelle
63,551 corpus weight
What this shows « inuit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | inuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nɥit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inuit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around inuit (IPA \i.nɥit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,448 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dit du peuple des Inuit, qui vivent dans l’Arctique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for inuit, with forms such as "iniut", "innuit", and "inuitt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "IUT", "irait", "invite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 inuit, spelled I-N-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit du peuple des Inuit, qui vivent dans l’Arctique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais souvent, elles ne parlent pas suffisamment français ou anglais pour se débrouiller, ou encore leur éducation ne leur permet même pas de se trouver un emploi dans une organisation inuite.
« On n’a aucune infirmière inuite, aucun prof d’anglais ou de français inuit, aucun comptable, architecte inuit, etc. Et je ne crois pas qu’on soit prêt d’en avoir. Les Blancs occupent ces postes. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iniut
- innuit
- inuitt
- inuti
- iunit
- niuit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inuit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).