immondice
\i.mɔ̃.dis\
The verdict
“immondice” is uncommon French (frequency #83,955 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,955
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordure ; se dit surtout au pluriel et désigne les ordures ménagères déposées dans les rues pour y être enlevées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-immondice · immondice · French
immondice · rank #83,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,955
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impartiales
Nearest frequency peer: impartiales (+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 « immondice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imaginatifs
imaginatifs
16,049 corpus weight
- imaginiez
imaginiez
16,048 corpus weight
- immondice
immondice
16,046 corpus weight
- impartiales
impartiales
16,045 corpus weight
- implémentée
implémentée
16,044 corpus weight
- imposèrent
imposèrent
16,043 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « immondice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immondice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.mɔ̃.dis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « immondice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
immondice is uncommon French at frequency #83,955 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.mɔ̃.dis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for immondice in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is immondice, spelled I-M-M-O-N-D-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ordure ; se dit surtout au pluriel et désigne les ordures ménagères déposées dans les rues pour y être enlevées.
- 2Dans la Bible, impureté dans laquelle les juifs tombaient, lorsqu’il leur était arrivé de toucher quelque chose d’immonde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how immondice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
nous eûmes beaucoup de peine à obtenir qu’on nous ouvrît la porte d’une hôtellerie, si tant est qu’on puisse appeler de ce nom un hangar ouvert de tous côtés, sans lit, sans meubles et couvert d’immondices à 20 centimètres de hauteur.
Longtemps ces ruines ont été abandonnées aux habitants de la cité, qui ne se faisaient pas faute […] de se servir des tours comme de dépôts d’immondices.
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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