immondices
\i.mɔ̃.dis\
The verdict
“immondices” is uncommon French (frequency #50,895 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,895
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de immondice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-immondices · immondices · French
immondices · rank #50,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,895
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impala
Nearest frequency peer: impala (+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 « immondices »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Howell
Howell
49,110 corpus weight
- hésitaient
hésitaient
49,108 corpus weight
- immondices
immondices
49,106 corpus weight
- impala
impala
49,105 corpus weight
- impriment
impriment
49,104 corpus weight
- impureté
impureté
49,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « immondices » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immondices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.mɔ̃.dis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « immondices » en français
Rare enough to double-check
immondices is uncommon French at frequency #50,895 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.mɔ̃.dis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de immondice.".
immondices doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is immondices, spelled I-M-M-O-N-D-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de immondice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how immondices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès les années 1850, l'ingénieur A. Mille prêche inlassablement en faveur du tout-à-l'égout. S'agissant des immondices, il n'a qu'un évangile : il faut « nettoyer dans l'eau, les perdre à l’égout et les restituer à l'agriculture ».
Au voisinage des villes, les dépôts d’immondices dessinent des fresques de cauchemar.
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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