imparfaitement
\ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“imparfaitement” is uncommon French (frequency #70,734 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,734
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière imparfaite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imparfaitement · imparfaitement · French
imparfaitement · rank #70,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,734
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immaculés
Nearest frequency peer: immaculés (-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 « imparfaitement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imbécilité
imbécilité
29,270 corpus weight
- immaculés
immaculés
29,268 corpus weight
- imparfaitem…
imparfaitement
29,267 corpus weight
- impiété
impiété
29,266 corpus weight
- incluaient
incluaient
29,265 corpus weight
- industriali…
industrialisées
29,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imparfaitement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imparfaitement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #70,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imparfaitement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imparfaitement is uncommon French at frequency #70,734 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière imparfaite.".
imparfaitement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 imparfaitement, spelled I-M-P-A-R-F-A-I-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière imparfaite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imparfaitement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’obscurité se faisait rapidement, et les sentiers de la forêt ne paraissaient qu’imparfaitement connus des maraudeurs.
Les prophètes et les patriarches, ces saints de la vieille loi, et qui n’ont connu la vérité qu’imparfaitement et à travers des métaphores, ont le nimbe en argent.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).