imbibés
\ɛ̃.bi.be\
The verdict
“imbibés” is uncommon French (frequency #71,591 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,591
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de imbibé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbibes · imbibés · French
imbibés · rank #71,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,591
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ili
Nearest frequency peer: ili (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “imbibés”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Héliopolis
Héliopolis
28,413 corpus weight
- ili
ili
28,411 corpus weight
- imbibés
imbibés
28,410 corpus weight
- immunothéra…
immunothérapie
28,409 corpus weight
- imposons
imposons
28,408 corpus weight
- imprévisibi…
imprévisibilité
28,407 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “imbibés” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbibés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.bi.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “imbibés” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
imbibés is uncommon French at frequency #71,591 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.bi.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de imbibé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for imbibés in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is imbibés, spelled I-M-B-I-B-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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