imbecile
[ˈɪm.bɪˌsiːl]
The verdict
“imbecile” is uncommon French (frequency #74,883 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,883
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imbécile, crétin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbecile · imbecile · French
imbecile · rank #74,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ilo
Nearest frequency peer: ilo (-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 « imbecile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- idéalise
idéalise
25,121 corpus weight
- Ilana
Ilana
25,120 corpus weight
- ilo
ilo
25,119 corpus weight
- imbecile
imbecile
25,118 corpus weight
- immixtion
immixtion
25,117 corpus weight
- immunisée
immunisée
25,116 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imbecile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbecile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɪm.bɪˌsiːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imbecile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imbecile is uncommon French at frequency #74,883 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɪm.bɪˌsiːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Imbécile, crétin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for imbecile in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is imbecile, spelled I-M-B-E-C-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Imbécile, crétin.
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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