impatient
\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“impatient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,983. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,983
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque de patience, soit dans la souffrance de quelque mal, soit dans l’attente de quelque bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impatient · impatient · French
impatient · rank #12,983 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,983
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imam
Nearest frequency peer: imam (-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 « impatient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hélicoptères
hélicoptères
87,021 corpus weight
- illégales
illégales
87,020 corpus weight
- imam
imam
87,019 corpus weight
- impatient
impatient
87,018 corpus weight
- inattendue
inattendue
87,017 corpus weight
- incarnation
incarnation
87,016 corpus weight
What this shows « impatient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impatient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impatient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around impatient (IPA \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,983 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for impatient, with forms such as "imaptient", "immpatient", and "impaitent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "impatiente", "impatients", "impatience", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 impatient, spelled I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui manque de patience, soit dans la souffrance de quelque mal, soit dans l’attente de quelque bien.
- 2Qui ne peut supporter, qui ne peut souffrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impatient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est d’un naturel impatient.
Je suis fort impatient de savoir ce qui en arrivera.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imaptient
- immpatient
- impaitent
- impateint
- impatiennt
- impatientt
- impatietn
- impatinet
- impattient
- imppatient
- imptaient
- ipmatient
- mipatient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impatient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impatient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).