inventrice
\ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁis\
The verdict
“inventrice” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui a fait une ou plusieurs inventions entérinées ou non par un brevet d’invention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inventrice · inventrice · French
inventrice · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | inventrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
inventrice is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
inventrice doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inventrice, spelled I-N-V-E-N-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui a fait une ou plusieurs inventions entérinées ou non par un brevet d’invention.
- 2Créatrice, qui renouvelle, augmente ou modifie la technique, la science ou l’art.
- 3Celle qui a trouvé une chose enfouie dans le sol.
- 4Celle qui a découvert un trésor, un site archéologique ou une grotte préhistorique ornée [voir Invention sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia ].
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inventrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour Justine Heynemann, c’est Hedy Lamarr, actrice hollywoodienne et inventrice.
Les modistes du Palais inventèrent, en 1723, une coiffure en gaze, qu’elles produisirent sous le nom singulier de mirliton. […]. […] ; bien entendu que toutes les actrices, danseuses, choristes et figurantes, chantant le mirliton, étaient coiffées de mirlitons, confectionnés à la galerie du Palais, où l’inventrice avait pompeusement étalé cette honorable…
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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.