inventaire

/\ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,878

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

inventaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mémoire, état dans lequel sont énumérés et décrits, article par article, les biens, meubles, titres, papiers d’une personne. Pronounced \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ\. It ranks #5,878 in French word frequency. Often confused with inventive and inventaires.

Key facts for inventaire
PropertyValue
Headwordinventaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#5,878
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of inventaire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for inventaire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,878 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for inventaire, with forms such as "inevntaire", "innventaire", and "invenatire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "inventive", "inventaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is inventaire, spelled I-N-V-E-N-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mémoire, état dans lequel sont énumérés et décrits, article par article, les biens, meubles, titres, papiers d’une personne.
  2. 2
    Évaluation des biens ecclésiastiques destinés à être rétrocédés à l'État ou aux communes, suite à la loi de séparation des Églises et de l'État de 1905.
  3. 3
    Dénombrement et évaluation des marchandises en magasin et appréciation de l’actif et du passif, afin de constater les profits et pertes et d’établir le bilan.
  4. 4
    Évaluation de ce qui est laissé ou légué à quelqu’un, en parlant de choses morales.
  5. 5
    Tout dénombrement.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inevntaire,innventaire,invenatire,invenntaire,inventaier,inventairre,inventarie,inventiare,inventtaire,invetnaire,invnetaire,invventaire,ivnentaire,niventaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inventaire

Misspelling Variants of "inventaire"

inevntaire10innventaire11invenatire10invenntaire11inventaier10inventairre11inventarie10inventiare10
Misspelling Variants of "inventaire"

Frequency rank: #5,878 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inventaire"?
"inventaire" is spelled I-N-V-E-N-T-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ\.
What does "inventaire" mean?
As a noun, "inventaire" means: Mémoire, état dans lequel sont énumérés et décrits, article par article, les biens, meubles, titres, papiers d’une personne.
What words are commonly confused with "inventaire"?
"inventaire" is commonly confused with "inventive", "inventaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inventaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inventaire" is \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inventaire" come from?
"inventaire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.