imparfaites
\ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛt\
The verdict
“imparfaites” is uncommon French (frequency #66,816 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,816
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de imparfait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imparfaites · imparfaites · French
imparfaites · rank #66,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,816
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immatriculées
Nearest frequency peer: immatriculées (-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 « imparfaites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imaginations
imaginations
33,188 corpus weight
- imbécillité
imbécillité
33,187 corpus weight
- immatriculé…
immatriculées
33,186 corpus weight
- imparfaites
imparfaites
33,185 corpus weight
- importune
importune
33,184 corpus weight
- impudence
impudence
33,183 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imparfaites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imparfaites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imparfaites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imparfaites is uncommon French at frequency #66,816 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de imparfait.".
imparfaites has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is imparfaites, spelled I-M-P-A-R-F-A-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de imparfait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imparfaites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hyphes ainsi dédiploïdisées diffèrent cependant d’hyphes primaires par le fait que leurs articles ne sont généralement pas cénocytiques et, comme l’a montré Quintanilia, par la présence de boucles au niveau des cloisons, boucles il est vrai imparfaites, c’est-à-dire dont le sommet ne vient jamais s’ouvrir dans l’article sous-jacent, mais néanmoins trè…
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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