impayé
\ɛ̃.pɛ.je\
The verdict
“impayé” is uncommon French (frequency #50,282 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,282
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’a pas été payé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impaye · impayé · French
impayé · rank #50,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,282
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impactant
Nearest frequency peer: impactant (-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 « impayé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ilot
ilot
49,722 corpus weight
- impactant
impactant
49,720 corpus weight
- impayé
impayé
49,719 corpus weight
- imprimeries
imprimeries
49,718 corpus weight
- imprégnation
imprégnation
49,717 corpus weight
- imputés
imputés
49,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impayé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impayé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impayé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impayé is uncommon French at frequency #50,282 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui n’a pas été payé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for impayé, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is impayé, spelled I-M-P-A-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Qui n’a pas été payé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impayé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une dette impayée est la bassesse, un commencement de friponnerie, et pis que tout cela, un mensonge !
Mais comment pourra-ton satisfaire au besoin moral des masses ? On ne le peut que par une instruction publique généralement gratuite, […]. Mais si, comme jusqu'alors, les instituteurs sont inconsidérés, tourmentés, vexés, impayés, mal logés, à une merci ingrate, paupérisante et dégradante, sous une dépendance entravante et serve, sous le coterisme du prêt…
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).