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imaginaire

French, noun/i.ma.ʒi.nɛʁ/

imaginaire is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-I-R-E (10 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imaginaire is a French masculine noun meaning “imagination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espace de pensée propre à l’être humain, indistinct de sa représentation du monde, dans lequel il peut créer…”.

What does imaginaire mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    imaginary (created by and existing only in the imagination)

    un danger imaginaire

  2. 2

    imaginary

    nombre imaginaire

noun

  1. 1

    masculineimagination

    dans l'imaginaire collectif

  2. 2

    masculineimaginary number

    imaginaire pur

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est issu de l’imagination, qui n’est pas réel. 2. Relatif aux nombres complexes non réels. 3. Relatif aux nombres dont le carré est un nombre négatif.

noun: 1. Espace de pensée propre à l’être humain, indistinct de sa représentation du monde, dans lequel il peut créer, superposer, surimposer, sublimer des choses et des évènements dans la réalité.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of imaginaire

  • imaginaires plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce imaginaire?

  • /i.ma.ʒi.nɛʁ/
  • \i.ma.ʒi.nɛʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to imaginaire

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is imaginaire in French?

imaginaire appears 14 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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