impatience

\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s\

/\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“impatience” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,835
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de patience, sentiment d’inquiétude ou d’irritation que l’on éprouve, soit dans la souffrance d’un mal, soit dans l’attente de quelque bien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-impatience · impatience · French

impatience · rank #6,835 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,835
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH id

Nearest frequency peer: id (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « impatience »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « impatience » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

impatience vs impatient
80% similar
impatience vs impatiente
90% similar
impatience vs impatients
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for impatience
PropertyValue
Headwordimpatience
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#6,835
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impatience »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).impatiencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « id » (#6,834), « intellectuel » (#6,836), « gratuits » (#6,833). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « impatience » est au #6,835. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around impatience (IPA \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,835 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for impatience, with forms such as "imaptience", "immpatience", and "impaitence". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "impatient", "impatiente", "impatients", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is impatience, spelled I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manque de patience, sentiment d’inquiétude ou d’irritation que l’on éprouve, soit dans la souffrance d’un mal, soit dans l’attente de quelque bien.
  2. 2
    Sorte d’irritation nerveuse que cause l’impatience.
  3. 3
    Sorte de démangeaison.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how impatience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pendant une conversation donner les signes d'impatience.
  2. Et maintenant, parti dès l'aube par la belle route de Lambèse, il pressait son cheval, pris d'une impatience qui l'étonnait lui-même.

Antonyms

patience

This word in other languages

impatience(English)impaciencia(Español)Ungeduld(Deutsch)impaciência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imaptience
  • immpatience
  • impaitence
  • impateince
  • impatiecne
  • impatiencce
  • impatienec
  • impatiennce
  • impatinece
  • impattience
  • imppatience
  • imptaience
  • ipmatience
  • mipatience

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impatience - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

imaptience2immpatience1impaitence2impateince2impatiecne2impatiencce1impatienec2impatiennce1
Edit distance from "impatience"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impatience"?
"impatience" is spelled I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s\.
What does "impatience" mean?
As a noun, "impatience" means: Manque de patience, sentiment d’inquiétude ou d’irritation que l’on éprouve, soit dans la souffrance d’un mal, soit dans l’attente de quelque bien.
What words are commonly confused with "impatience"?
"impatience" is commonly confused with "impatient", "impatiente", "impatients". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "impatience"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impatience" is \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impatience" come from?
"impatience" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impatience", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

fréquente14 variantsméchants14 variantsdisparaît14 variantspriorités14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list