imminence
\i.mi.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“imminence” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,848
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est imminent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imminence · imminence · French
imminence · rank #38,848 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,848
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH illuminations
Nearest frequency peer: illuminations (-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 « imminence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hyènes
hyènes
61,157 corpus weight
- icon
icon
61,156 corpus weight
- illuminatio…
illuminations
61,154 corpus weight
- imminence
imminence
61,153 corpus weight
- imperméables
imperméables
61,152 corpus weight
- imprégnée
imprégnée
61,151 corpus weight
What this shows « imminence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imminence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.mi.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imminence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around imminence (IPA \i.mi.nɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,848 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est imminent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for imminence, with forms such as "imimnence", "iminence", and "immiennce". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "imminent", "imminente", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is imminence, spelled I-M-M-I-N-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est imminent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imminence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, l'organisation de la famille française s'est achevée sous l'influence du droit canon et du droit romain qui revêtaient hier encore un aspect d'éternité et qui nous surprennent aujourd'hui par l'imminence de leur déclin.
Dans cet avenir, dont je commençais à sentir l’imminence, l’essentiel demeurait la littérature.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imimnence
- iminence
- immiennce
- imminecne
- imminencce
- imminenec
- imminennce
- imminnece
- imminnence
- immnience
- miminence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imminence - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).