impact

\ɛ̃.pakt\

/\ɛ̃.pakt\/ noun

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The verdict

“impact” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,818
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Choc d’un projectile contre un corps.

Corpus desk

Index FR-impact · impact · French

impact · rank #1,818 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,818
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH heureusement

Nearest frequency peer: heureusement (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « impact »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « impact » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

impact vs impôt
67% similar
impact vs impec
67% similar
impact vs intact
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for impact
PropertyValue
Headwordimpact
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.pakt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,818
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impact »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).impactse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « heureusement » (#1,817), « inscrit » (#1,819), « joie » (#1,820). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « impact » est au #1,818. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around impact (IPA \ɛ̃.pakt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,818 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for impact, with forms such as "imapct", "immpact", and "impacct". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "impôt", "impec", "intact", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is impact, spelled I-M-P-A-C-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Choc d’un projectile contre un corps.
  2. 2
    Effet violent ; vive répercussion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how impact appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Voici une photo prise de l’endroit où était stationnée l’Estafette et les premiers points d’impact vont être relevés contre le mur. Ces points d’impact vont être relevés sur toute cette partie et les photos qui suivent vont montrer ces points à la hauteur du sol.
  2. Si le son du canon glace d’effroi les assiégés, c'est par ce même son que certains s’accoutument à l'obus, apprennent à deviner les trajectoires et les impacts.

This word in other languages

impact(English)impacto(Español)Einschlag(Deutsch)impacto(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imapct
  • immpact
  • impacct
  • impactt
  • impatc
  • impcat
  • imppact
  • ipmact
  • mipact

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impact - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

imapct2immpact1impacct1impactt1impatc2impcat2imppact1ipmact2
Edit distance from "impact"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impact"?
"impact" is spelled I-M-P-A-C-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pakt\.
What does "impact" mean?
As a noun, "impact" means: Choc d’un projectile contre un corps.
What words are commonly confused with "impact"?
"impact" is commonly confused with "impôt", "impec", "intact". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "impact"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impact" is \ɛ̃.pakt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impact" come from?
"impact" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impact", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

essaie#1,813métier#1,826obtenu#1,828chasse#1,806

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

cancer9 variantsThomas9 variantsagents9 variantsséance9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list