imparfaits
\ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛ\
The verdict
“imparfaits” is uncommon French (frequency #53,406 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,406
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de imparfait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imparfaits · imparfaits · French
imparfaits · rank #53,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,406
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH incorruptible
Nearest frequency peer: incorruptible (+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 « imparfaits »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hâtivement
hâtivement
46,599 corpus weight
- Hélie
Hélie
46,598 corpus weight
- Héraclès
Héraclès
46,597 corpus weight
- imparfaits
imparfaits
46,595 corpus weight
- incorruptib…
incorruptible
46,594 corpus weight
- inexpérimen…
inexpérimentés
46,592 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imparfaits » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imparfaits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imparfaits » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imparfaits is uncommon French at frequency #53,406 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.paʁ.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de imparfait.".
No misspelling variants are generated for imparfaits in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is imparfaits, spelled I-M-P-A-R-F-A-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de imparfait.
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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