immortal
\ɪ.mˈɔɹ.təl\
The verdict
“immortal” is uncommon French (frequency #79,398 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,398
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Immortel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-immortal · immortal · French
immortal · rank #79,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immole
Nearest frequency peer: immole (-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 « immortal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- illusionnis…
illusionnistes
20,607 corpus weight
- imbiber
imbiber
20,606 corpus weight
- immole
immole
20,604 corpus weight
- immortal
immortal
20,603 corpus weight
- imposes
imposes
20,600 corpus weight
- inauguratio…
inaugurations
20,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « immortal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | immortal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɪ.mˈɔɹ.təl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « immortal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
immortal is uncommon French at frequency #79,398 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɪ.mˈɔɹ.təl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Immortel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for immortal, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is immortal, spelled I-M-M-O-R-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Immortel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how immortal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fanged immortal protagonists, lycanthropic lovers, and fanciful faeries have become a welcome addition to the bodice-ripping heroines and shirtless, sword-wielding pirates that have traditionally served as the mainstay of romance novel covers.
Antonyms
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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