immensité

/\i.mɑ̃.si.te\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,359

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

immensité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espace sans bornes ; état de ce qui est immense. Pronounced \i.mɑ̃.si.te\. Often confused with immunité and intensité.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of immensité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for immensité is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.mɑ̃.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,359 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for immensité, with forms such as "imemnsité", "imensité", and "immenisté". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is immensité, spelled I-M-M-E-N-S-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imemnsité,imensité,immenisté,immennsité,immensite,immensitté,immensiét,immenssité,immenstié,immesnité,immnesité,mimensité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for immensité

Misspelling Variants of "immensité"

imemnsité9imensité8immenisté9immennsité10immensite9immensitté10immensiét9immenssité10
Misspelling Variants of "immensité"

Frequency rank: #25,359 in French

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?
"immensité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.