impolite
/ɪmpəˈlaɪt/adjective
impolite is spelled I-M-P-O-L-I-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is inpolite: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Impolite is an adjective meaning “Not polite; discourteous; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners”.
How many letters and syllables are in impolite?
| Letters | 8: I-M-P-O-L-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, inpolite, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell impolite?
Impolite is spelled I-M-P-O-L-I-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for impolite in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is impolite?
Impolite appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce impolite?
- /ɪmpəˈlaɪt/
Impolite has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-impolite.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of impolite
- impoliter comparative
- more impolite comparative
- impolitest superlative
- most impolite superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does impolite mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not polite; discourteous; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Impolite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not polite:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | impoli, malpoli |
| German | unhöflich |
| Portuguese | indelicado, impolido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does impolite come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).