impassable
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The verdict
“impassable” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - [Straße, Route, Landschaft] unpassierbar (unbegehbar, unbefahrbar)
Corpus desk
Index DE-impassable · impassable · German
impassable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | impassable |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „impassable“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
impassable is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for impassable in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is impassable, spelled I-M-P-A-S-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1[Straße, Route, Landschaft] unpassierbar (unbegehbar, unbefahrbar)
- 2unüberwindlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impassable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Steady rain over the last 24 hours left a number of roads county wide impassable.“
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.