impassion

verb

"impassion" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“impassion” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - make passionate, instill passion in

Corpus desk

Index EN-impassion · impassion · English

impassion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "I" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for impassion
PropertyValue
Headwordimpassion
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “impassion” in English

impassionfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

impassion is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "make passionate, instill passion in".

Zero misspellings are on record for impassion in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion. The correct English form is impassion, spelled I-M-P-A-S-S-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    make passionate, instill passion in

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how impassion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.
  2. Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

Etymology

From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impassion"?
"impassion" is spelled I-M-P-A-S-S-I-O-N.
What does "impassion" mean?
As a verb, "impassion" means: make passionate, instill passion in
What is the origin of the word "impassion"?
From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list