impatients

\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\

/\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « impatients » 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).

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

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

Key facts for impatients
PropertyValue
Headwordimpatients
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#23,239
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impatients »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.impatientsse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « immature » (#23,238), « importent » (#23,240), « ida » (#23,237). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « impatients » est au #23,239. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de impatient.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

imaptients2immpatients1impaitents2impateints2impatiennts1impatienst2impatientss1impatientts1
Edit distance from "impatients"

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 "impatients"?
"impatients" is spelled I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\.
What does "impatients" mean?
As an adjective, "impatients" means: Masculin pluriel de impatient.
What words are commonly confused with "impatients"?
"impatients" is commonly confused with "impatient", "impatience", "impatiente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "impatients"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impatients" is \ɛ̃.pa.sjɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "impatients" come from?
"impatients" 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 "impatients", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list