immémorial
\i.me.mɔ.ʁjal\
The verdict
“immémorial” is uncommon French (frequency #88,744 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,744
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antérieur au souvenir direct des personnes encore vivantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-immemorial · immémorial · French
immémorial · rank #88,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,744
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imites
Nearest frequency peer: imites (-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 « immémorial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- inclurait
inclurait
11,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « immémorial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immémorial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.me.mɔ.ʁjal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « immémorial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
immémorial is uncommon French at frequency #88,744 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.me.mɔ.ʁjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for immémorial, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is immémorial, spelled I-M-M-É-M-O-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Antérieur au souvenir direct des personnes encore vivantes.
- 2Qui est si ancien qu’on n’en sait pas l’origine, qu’il n’en reste aucune mémoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how immémorial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Possession immémoriale, usage immémorial, tradition immémoriale, temps immémorial.
Ce combat, d’une immémoriale antiquité, acte de justice cruelle et bouffonne, offre un spectacle dont les naturels du pays sont très friands.
This word in other languages
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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