inusité
\i.ny.zi.te\
The verdict
“inusité” is uncommon French (frequency #52,128 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,128
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui n’est pas usité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inusite · inusité · French
inusité · rank #52,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,128
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 142,603
- PHOTO-FINISH intimide
Nearest frequency peer: intimide (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “inusité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- intervenante
intervenante
47,876 corpus weight
- interventio…
interventionniste
47,875 corpus weight
- intimide
intimide
47,874 corpus weight
- inusité
inusité
47,873 corpus weight
- irrationnel…
irrationnelles
47,872 corpus weight
- irritée
irritée
47,871 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “inusité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inusité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ny.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inusité” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
inusité is uncommon French at frequency #52,128 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ny.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui n’est pas usité.".
inusité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inusité, spelled I-N-U-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas usité.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "inusité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.