imitable
\i.mi.tabl\
The verdict
“imitable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être imité, qui est digne d’être imité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imitable · imitable · French
imitable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imitable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.mi.tabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
imitable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.mi.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut être imité, qui est digne d’être imité.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for imitable in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 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 imitable, spelled I-M-I-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être imité, qui est digne d’être imité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette action est plus admirable qu’imitable.
Antonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.