immensité

\i.mɑ̃.si.te\

/\i.mɑ̃.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“immensité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,359
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace sans bornes ; état de ce qui est immense.

Corpus desk

Index FR-immensite · immensité · French

immensité · rank #25,359 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,359
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH ies

Nearest frequency peer: ies (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « immensité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « immensité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

immensité vs immunité
78% similar
immensité vs intensité
78% similar
immensité vs immense
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for immensité
PropertyValue
Headwordimmensité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.mɑ̃.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#25,359
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « immensité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.immensitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ies » (#25,358), « improvise » (#25,360), « identifient » (#25,357). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « immensité » est au #25,359. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around immensité (IPA \i.mɑ̃.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,359 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for immensité, with forms such as "imemnsité", "imensité", and "immenisté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "immunité", "intensité", "immense", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is immensité, spelled I-M-M-E-N-S-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espace sans bornes ; état de ce qui est immense.
  2. 2
    Espace sans bornes ; état de ce qui est immense.
  3. 3
    Très vaste étendue.
  4. 4
    Ce qui est très considérable dans son genre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how immensité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au milieu de l’insondable obscurité, dont s’enveloppe le Kara-Koum, j’éprouve l’impression que donne l’immensité nocturne de la mer autour d’un navire.
  2. Là-bas, ils ne verront plus que les immensités interdites aux pas des hommes : le ciel et l’eau.

This word in other languages

immensity(English)inmensidad(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imemnsité
  • imensité
  • immenisté
  • immennsité
  • immensite
  • immensitté
  • immensiét
  • immenssité
  • immenstié
  • immesnité
  • immnesité
  • mimensité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of immensité - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

imemnsité2imensité1immenisté2immennsité1immensite1immensitté1immensiét2immenssité1
Edit distance from "immensité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "immensité"?
"immensité" is spelled I-M-M-E-N-S-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \i.mɑ̃.si.te\.
What does "immensité" mean?
As a noun, "immensité" means: Espace sans bornes ; état de ce qui est immense.
What words are commonly confused with "immensité"?
"immensité" is commonly confused with "immunité", "intensité", "immense". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "immensité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "immensité" is \i.mɑ̃.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "immensité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "immensité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

improvise#25,360imputable#25,361incurable#25,365Ivoiriens#25,371

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

inachevé12 variantsincultes12 variantsglaciaire12 variantsfugitifs12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list