impécunieux
\ɛ̃.pe.ky.njø\
The verdict
“impécunieux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sans argent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impecunieux · impécunieux · French
impécunieux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impécunieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.ky.njø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impécunieux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impécunieux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pe.ky.njø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est sans argent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for impécunieux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is impécunieux, spelled I-M-P-É-C-U-N-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est sans argent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impécunieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dégota, péniblement, une place de sous-reporter, dans un canard impécunieux du matin. […]. Mais le canard sombra, sans payer ses rédacteurs qu'il ne payait qu'à moitié depuis des mois.
C’est l’heure où, à Aix, les étudiants impécunieux font le pied de grue devant le café des Deux-Garçons.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.