imminence

/\i.mi.nɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#38,848

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

imminence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est imminent. Pronounced \i.mi.nɑ̃s\. Often confused with imminent and imminente.

Key facts for imminence
PropertyValue
Headwordimminence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.mi.nɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#38,848
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for imminence is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.mi.nɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,848 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

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 imminence, spelled I-M-M-I-N-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est imminent.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imimnence,iminence,immiennce,imminecne,imminencce,imminenec,imminennce,imminnece,imminnence,immnience,miminence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imminence

Misspelling Variants of "imminence"

imimnence9iminence8immiennce9imminecne9imminencce10imminenec9imminennce10imminnece9
Misspelling Variants of "imminence"

Frequency rank: #38,848 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "imminence"?
"imminence" is spelled I-M-M-I-N-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.mi.nɑ̃s\.
What does "imminence" mean?
As a noun, "imminence" means: Qualité de ce qui est imminent.
What words are commonly confused with "imminence"?
"imminence" is commonly confused with "imminent", "imminente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "imminence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imminence" is \i.mi.nɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imminence" come from?
"imminence" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.