imbibée
\ɛ̃.bi.be\
The verdict
“imbibée” is uncommon French (frequency #68,354 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,354
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de imbibé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbibee · imbibée · French
imbibée · rank #68,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH igas
Nearest frequency peer: igas (-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 « imbibée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- igas
igas
31,648 corpus weight
- imbibée
imbibée
31,647 corpus weight
- immodéré
immodéré
31,646 corpus weight
- immortalisée
immortalisée
31,645 corpus weight
- implantent
implantent
31,644 corpus weight
- impliquaient
impliquaient
31,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imbibée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbibée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.bi.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imbibée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imbibée is uncommon French at frequency #68,354 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.bi.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de imbibé.".
imbibée has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is imbibée, spelled I-M-B-I-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de imbibé.
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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