impayable
\ɛ̃.pɛ.jabl\
The verdict
“impayable” is uncommon French (frequency #80,295 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,295
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être payé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impayable · impayable · French
impayable · rank #80,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,295
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imminents
Nearest frequency peer: imminents (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « impayable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- IED
IED
19,709 corpus weight
- ieu
ieu
19,708 corpus weight
- imminents
imminents
19,707 corpus weight
- impayable
impayable
19,706 corpus weight
- incendient
incendient
19,704 corpus weight
- incinérer
incinérer
19,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impayable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impayable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɛ.jabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impayable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impayable is uncommon French at frequency #80,295 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɛ.jabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for impayable, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is impayable, spelled I-M-P-A-Y-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être payé.
- 2Qui ne peut trop se payer.
- 3(1735) Qui est extraordinaire, très bizarre, très drôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impayable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'eus un vague sentiment que sa visite désespérée, la traite impayable de la fin du mois, la lettre de Janine, tout cela n'avait eu d'autre but que de m'extorquer la somme nécessaire à l'achat du lustre et peut-être d'autres objets.
Tu nous rends un service impayable. Mais quand s'acquittera le compte général, Je ne t'oublîrai ^([sic]) point ; tu seras caporal !
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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