involution
\ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“involution” is uncommon French (frequency #94,932 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,932
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une chose qui est roulée en dedans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-involution · involution · French
involution · rank #94,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inventera
Nearest frequency peer: inventera (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « involution »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- invalidante
invalidante
5,072 corpus weight
- invariante
invariante
5,071 corpus weight
- inventera
inventera
5,070 corpus weight
- involution
involution
5,069 corpus weight
- inébranlabl…
inébranlables
5,068 corpus weight
- irisé
irisé
5,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « involution » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | involution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « involution » en français
Rare enough to double-check
involution is uncommon French at frequency #94,932 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for involution in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is involution, spelled I-N-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1État d’une chose qui est roulée en dedans.
- 2Régression spontanée ou provoquée d'un tissu, d'un organe ou d'un organisme.
- 3Application qui est sa propre inverse.
- 4Développement interne.
- 5Accumulation de problèmes, de tracasseries. Terme notamment présent dans des actes notariés du XVIIᵉ siècle.
- 6Concurrence effrénée où la surenchère d'efforts finit par neutraliser l'efficacité globale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how involution appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’involution des pétales d’une fleur.
L'involution du thymus commence après l'adolescence.
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.
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