s’inspirer
\s‿ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\
The verdict
“s’inspirer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - Se servir des idées, des œuvres d’autrui, à propos des ouvrages de l’esprit ou d’un ouvrage d’art.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-inspirer · s’inspirer · French
s’inspirer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | s’inspirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’inspirer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’inspirer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se servir des idées, des œuvres d’autrui, à propos des ouvrages de l’esprit ou d’un ouvrage d’art.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for s’inspirer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is s’inspirer, spelled S-’-I-N-S-P-I-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se servir des idées, des œuvres d’autrui, à propos des ouvrages de l’esprit ou d’un ouvrage d’art.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how s’inspirer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour composer ce livre, il s’inspira beaucoup de ses lectures, de ses souvenirs.
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.