impératif
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,072
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
impératif is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui exige ou prétend exiger l’obéissance à un ordre, en parlant des paroles et des gestes. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tif\. Often confused with impératifs and impérative.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impératif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for impératif is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,072 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for impératif, with forms such as "immpératif", "imperatif", and "imppératif". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impératifs", "impérative", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is impératif, spelled I-M-P-É-R-A-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui exige ou prétend exiger l’obéissance à un ordre, en parlant des paroles et des gestes.
- 2Nécessaire ; impérieux ; urgent.
- 3Qualifie un langage de programmation qui met l’accent sur les modifications des variables provoquées par l’exécution des instructions.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpératif,imperatif,imppératif,impréatif,impéartif,impéraitf,impératfi,impératiff,impérattif,impérratif,impértaif,imépratif,ipmératif,mipératif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "impératif"
Frequency rank: #11,072 in French
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