impalpable
\ɛ̃.pal.pabl\
The verdict
“impalpable” is uncommon French (frequency #74,080 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,080
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est si ténu, si fin, si délié, qu’il ne fait aucune impression sensible au toucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impalpable · impalpable · French
impalpable · rank #74,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,080
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imitait
Nearest frequency peer: imitait (-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 « impalpable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- illa
illa
25,924 corpus weight
- imitait
imitait
25,922 corpus weight
- impalpable
impalpable
25,921 corpus weight
- imperméabil…
imperméabilité
25,920 corpus weight
- impunie
impunie
25,919 corpus weight
- impératives
impératives
25,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impalpable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impalpable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pal.pabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impalpable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impalpable is uncommon French at frequency #74,080 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pal.pabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est si ténu, si fin, si délié, qu’il ne fait aucune impression sensible au toucher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for impalpable, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is impalpable, spelled I-M-P-A-L-P-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est si ténu, si fin, si délié, qu’il ne fait aucune impression sensible au toucher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impalpable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais la terre était réduite à l’état de poussière presque impalpable, et le sable continuait doucement à couler des dunes escarpées.
Ou, plutôt, celui-ci s’est fantomisé, est devenu impalpable, immatériel, incorporel, comme les ombres qu’Ulysse rencontrait aux Enfers.
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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