imbus
\ɛ̃.by\
The verdict
“imbus” is uncommon French (frequency #63,829 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,829
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de imbu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbus · imbus · French
imbus · rank #63,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,829
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ij
Nearest frequency peer: ij (-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 « imbus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- IIIème
IIIème
36,174 corpus weight
- ij
ij
36,173 corpus weight
- imbus
imbus
36,172 corpus weight
- immorales
immorales
36,171 corpus weight
- immunisation
immunisation
36,170 corpus weight
- imper
imper
36,169 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imbus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.by\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imbus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imbus is uncommon French at frequency #63,829 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.by\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de imbu.".
imbus has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 imbus, spelled I-M-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de imbu.
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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