impacts

\ɛ̃.pakt\

/\ɛ̃.pakt\/ noun

The verdict

“impacts” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,673
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de impact.

Corpus desk

Index FR-impacts · impacts · French

impacts · rank #9,673 · 11 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,673
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH impossibilité

Nearest frequency peer: impossibilité (+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 « impacts »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « impacts » 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).

impacts vs impôts
71% similar
impacts vs impayés
71% similar
impacts vs intacts
71% similar

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

Key facts for impacts
PropertyValue
Headwordimpacts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.pakt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,673
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impacts »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.impactsse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « impossibilité » (#9,674), « hp » (#9,671), « impressionnante » (#9,675). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « impacts » est au #9,673. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around impacts (IPA \ɛ̃.pakt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,673 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de impact.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for impacts, with forms such as "imapcts", "immpacts", and "impaccts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "impôts", "impayés", "intacts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 impacts, spelled I-M-P-A-C-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de impact.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Lucien hésita avant que les deux cartouches suivantes n’arrivent dans les tubes de son flingot juste à temps pour faire exploser la lunette arrière du véhicule qui s’évanouit dans la fumée, laissant sur le quai le moteur hors-bord marqué d’impacts de chevrotine.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imapcts
  • immpacts
  • impaccts
  • impacst
  • impactss
  • impactts
  • impatcs
  • impcats
  • imppacts
  • ipmacts
  • mipacts

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impacts - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

imapcts2immpacts1impaccts1impacst2impactss1impactts1impatcs2impcats2
Edit distance from "impacts"

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 "impacts"?
"impacts" is spelled I-M-P-A-C-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pakt\.
What does "impacts" mean?
As a noun, "impacts" means: Pluriel de impact.
What words are commonly confused with "impacts"?
"impacts" is commonly confused with "impôts", "impayés", "intacts". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "impacts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impacts" is \ɛ̃.pakt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impacts" come from?
"impacts" 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 "impacts", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list