immoler
\i.mɔ.le\
The verdict
“immoler” is uncommon French (frequency #51,530 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,530
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offrir en sacrifice, en parlant des victimes qu’on tuait pour les offrir aux dieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-immoler · immoler · French
immoler · rank #51,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,530
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imaginaient
Nearest frequency peer: imaginaient (-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 « immoler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ignares
ignares
48,473 corpus weight
- imaginaient
imaginaient
48,472 corpus weight
- immoler
immoler
48,471 corpus weight
- imprécisions
imprécisions
48,470 corpus weight
- impulsivité
impulsivité
48,469 corpus weight
- imputée
imputée
48,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « immoler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.mɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « immoler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
immoler is uncommon French at frequency #51,530 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.mɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for immoler, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is immoler, spelled I-M-M-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Offrir en sacrifice, en parlant des victimes qu’on tuait pour les offrir aux dieux.
- 2Offrir à Dieu le rituel du Saint Sacrifice au cours de la messe.
- 3Tuer, massacrer, égorger.
- 4Ruiner, perdre quelqu’un, ou détruire une chose, y renoncer, s’en priver, pour satisfaire quelque passion, pour obéir à quelque nécessité, à quelque devoir, etc.
- 5Offrir sa vie en sacrifice, pour une cause politique ou religieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how immoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ouvrit la séance par un sacrifice à Cérès. Des prêtres immolèrent un jeune cochon, et de son sang purifièrent l'enceinte.
[…] cette hostie divine qui devait être immolée pour eux et pour nous.
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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