inviter

/\ɛ̃.vi.te\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,775

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

inviter is aFrenchverb. It means: Convier, prier de se trouver, de se rendre quelque part, d’assister à quelque cérémonie, etc. Pronounced \ɛ̃.vi.te\. It ranks #5,775 in French word frequency. Often confused with invités and invitez.

Key facts for inviter
PropertyValue
Headwordinviter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.vi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,775
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for inviter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.vi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,775 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for inviter, with forms such as "inivter", "innviter", and "invietr". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "invités", "invitez", "irriter", and more, 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 inviter, spelled I-N-V-I-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Convier, prier de se trouver, de se rendre quelque part, d’assister à quelque cérémonie, etc.
  2. 2
    Engager, exciter à quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Enjoindre à quelqu’un de faire une chose.
  4. 4
    Venir sans y être convié
  5. 5
    S'imposer comme matière de discussion, de débat dans un contexte donné; se dit d'un sujet, d'un enjeu.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inivter,innviter,invietr,inviterr,invitre,invitter,invtier,invviter,ivniter,niviter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inviter

Misspelling Variants of "inviter"

inivter7innviter8invietr7inviterr8invitre7invitter8invtier7invviter8
Misspelling Variants of "inviter"

Frequency rank: #5,775 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inviter"?
"inviter" is spelled I-N-V-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.vi.te\.
What does "inviter" mean?
As a verb, "inviter" means: Convier, prier de se trouver, de se rendre quelque part, d’assister à quelque cérémonie, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "inviter"?
"inviter" is commonly confused with "invités", "invitez", "irriter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "inviter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inviter" is \ɛ̃.vi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "inviter" come from?
"inviter" 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.