IMEI
\i.ɛm.ø.i\
The verdict
“IMEI” is uncommon French (frequency #84,890 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,890
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Numéro de série d'un téléphone mobile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imei · IMEI · French
IMEI · rank #84,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,890
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imagier
Nearest frequency peer: imagier (-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 « IMEI »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- idylliques
idylliques
15,114 corpus weight
- ilm
ilm
15,113 corpus weight
- imagier
imagier
15,112 corpus weight
- IMEI
IMEI
15,111 corpus weight
- impassibles
impassibles
15,110 corpus weight
- inclinaisons
inclinaisons
15,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « IMEI » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IMEI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɛm.ø.i\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « IMEI » en français
Rare enough to double-check
IMEI is uncommon French at frequency #84,890 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ɛm.ø.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Numéro de série d'un téléphone mobile.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for IMEI, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 IMEI, spelled I-M-E-I.
Definition
- 1Numéro de série d'un téléphone mobile.
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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