immigrer
\i.mi.ɡʁe\
The verdict
“immigrer” is uncommon French (frequency #63,067 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,067
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Venir dans un pays dont on n'est pas originaire, pour s’y établir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-immigrer · immigrer · French
immigrer · rank #63,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,067
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immersive
Nearest frequency peer: immersive (-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 « immigrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immatérielle
immatérielle
36,937 corpus weight
- immergées
immergées
36,936 corpus weight
- immersive
immersive
36,935 corpus weight
- immigrer
immigrer
36,934 corpus weight
- impressionn…
impressionnable
36,932 corpus weight
- imprimant
imprimant
36,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « immigrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immigrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.mi.ɡʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « immigrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
immigrer is uncommon French at frequency #63,067 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.mi.ɡʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Venir dans un pays dont on n'est pas originaire, pour s’y établir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for immigrer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is immigrer, spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Venir dans un pays dont on n'est pas originaire, pour s’y établir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how immigrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces Polonais se trouvaient en Amérique où ils avaient immigré depuis plusieurs années.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).