iman
\i.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“iman” is uncommon French (frequency #52,747 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,747
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de imam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iman · iman · French
iman · rank #52,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,747
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH igloo
Nearest frequency peer: igloo (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « iman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- héritent
héritent
47,256 corpus weight
- igloo
igloo
47,255 corpus weight
- iman
iman
47,254 corpus weight
- immigrées
immigrées
47,253 corpus weight
- immunisés
immunisés
47,252 corpus weight
- incisions
incisions
47,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « iman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « iman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
iman is uncommon French at frequency #52,747 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de imam.".
iman has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is iman, spelled I-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de imam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how iman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sire, j'observerai à Votre Majesté qu'il ne me paraît pas possible que le prince puisse voyager tout seul. Les droits de ma charge exigent que je ne le quitte pas jusqu'à son mariage. D'ailleurs, s'en ira-t-il pour plusieurs mois, plusieurs semaines, même plusieurs jours, sans avoir un iman avec lui ?' — (Édouard Ferdinand de La Bonninière (1816-1875), Pa…
Le chiisme professé par les Iraniens dispose quant à lui d’un clergé très structuré et fort nombreux, avec ses talebs (étudiants), mollahs, hodjatoleslam, ayatollah, grands ayatollah et éventuellement un iman. — (Jeune Afrique, numéros 1618 à 1629, 1992)
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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