homme d’importance
\ɔm d‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“homme d’importance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui jouit de crédit, de richesse, de pouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homme-d-importance · homme d’importance · French
homme d’importance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | homme d’importance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm d‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « homme d’importance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
homme d’importance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔm d‿ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui jouit de crédit, de richesse, de pouvoir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for homme d’importance in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is homme d’importance, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -D-’-I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui jouit de crédit, de richesse, de pouvoir.
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.