impasse mexicaine
\ɛ̃.pas mɛk.si.kɛn\
The verdict
“impasse mexicaine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Situation entre au moins deux individus se menaçant mutuellement et où aucun n'a intérêt à attaquer le premier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impasse mexicaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pas mɛk.si.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “impasse mexicaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for impasse mexicaine is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pas mɛk.si.kɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Situation entre au moins deux individus se menaçant mutuellement et où aucun n'a intérêt à attaquer le premier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for impasse mexicaine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is impasse mexicaine, spelled I-M-P-A-S-S-E- -M-E-X-I-C-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situation entre au moins deux individus se menaçant mutuellement et où aucun n'a intérêt à attaquer le premier.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-M-P-A-S-S-E- -M-E-X-I-C-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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