impayée
\ɛ̃.pe.je\
The verdict
“impayée” is uncommon French (frequency #82,121 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,121
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de impayé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impayee · impayée · French
impayée · rank #82,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impardonnables
Nearest frequency peer: impardonnables (-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 « impayée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immanente
immanente
17,883 corpus weight
- immuniser
immuniser
17,882 corpus weight
- impardonnab…
impardonnables
17,881 corpus weight
- impayée
impayée
17,880 corpus weight
- imperceptib…
imperceptiblement
17,879 corpus weight
- imperceptib…
imperceptibles
17,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impayée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impayée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impayée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impayée is uncommon French at frequency #82,121 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pe.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de impayé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for impayée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 impayée, spelled I-M-P-A-Y-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de impayé.
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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