membre inférieur
\mɑ̃.bʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjøʁ\
The verdict
“membre inférieur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Membre postérieur humain, formé du fesse, de la cuisse, du genou, de la jambe, de la cheville et du pied.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | membre inférieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.bʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjøʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “membre inférieur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for membre inférieur is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.bʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjøʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Membre postérieur humain, formé du fesse, de la cuisse, du genou, de la jambe, de la cheville et du pied.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for membre inférieur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 membre inférieur, spelled M-E-M-B-R-E- -I-N-F-É-R-I-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Membre postérieur humain, formé du fesse, de la cuisse, du genou, de la jambe, de la cheville et du pied.
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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.
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Using “membre inférieur”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-M-B-R-E- -I-N-F-É-R-I-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.