inviable
The verdict
“inviable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non apte à vivre, à durer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inviable · inviable · French
inviable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | inviable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
inviable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non apte à vivre, à durer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for inviable, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is inviable, spelled I-N-V-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Non apte à vivre, à durer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inviable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit, d'un côté la religion et de l'autre la vérité : la science, c'est malsain, inviable.
Le philosophe s'y connaît en concepts, et en manque de concepts, il sait lesquels sont inviables, arbitraires ou inconsistants, ne tiennent pas un instant.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.