imites
\i.mit\
The verdict
“imites” is uncommon French (frequency #88,743 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,743
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imites · imites · French
imites · rank #88,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,743
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imagées
Nearest frequency peer: imagées (-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 « imites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- identifiera
identifiera
11,262 corpus weight
- illettrées
illettrées
11,260 corpus weight
- imagées
imagées
11,259 corpus weight
- imites
imites
11,258 corpus weight
- immémorial
immémorial
11,257 corpus weight
- importes
importes
11,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.mit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imites is uncommon French at frequency #88,743 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for imites in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is imites, spelled I-M-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imiter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de imiter.
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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