ime
\ˈi.me\
The verdict
“ime” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,145) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,145
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ma, mon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ime · ime · French
ime · rank #49,145 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,145
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imberbe
Nearest frequency peer: imberbe (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ime »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- imagée
imagée
50,859 corpus weight
- imberbe
imberbe
50,857 corpus weight
- ime
ime
50,856 corpus weight
- immunologie
immunologie
50,855 corpus weight
- indexés
indexés
50,854 corpus weight
- indica
indica
50,853 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ime » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈi.me\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ime »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ime is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "IP", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈi.me\. Frequency #49,145 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Ma, mon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ime, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "IP", "ix", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ime, spelled I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Ma, mon.
Synonyms
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).