impatients
\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“impatients” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,239
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de impatient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impatients · impatients · French
impatients · rank #23,239 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,239
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immature
Nearest frequency peer: immature (-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 « impatients »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ida
ida
76,764 corpus weight
- immature
immature
76,763 corpus weight
- impatients
impatients
76,762 corpus weight
- importent
importent
76,761 corpus weight
- impériaux
impériaux
76,760 corpus weight
- inaperçue
inaperçue
76,759 corpus weight
What this shows « impatients » 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 | impatients |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impatients »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around impatients (IPA \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,239 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de impatient.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for impatients, with forms such as "imaptients", "immpatients", and "impaitents". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "impatient", "impatience", "impatiente", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is impatients, spelled I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de impatient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impatients appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dignes bêtes formaient une assemblée de sujets plus fidèles que ceux à qui s’adressait alors le roi, tous tachetés de blanc, de brun, de noir, ayant chacun leur physionomie absolument comme les soldats de Napoléon, allumant au moindre bruit leurs prunelles d’un feu qui les faisait ressembler à des diamants ; l’un, venu du Poitou, court de reins, large…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imaptients
- immpatients
- impaitents
- impateints
- impatiennts
- impatienst
- impatientss
- impatientts
- impatietns
- impatinets
- impattients
- imppatients
- imptaients
- ipmatients
- mipatients
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impatients - 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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Same letter count
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