impératives
\ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tiv\
The verdict
“impératives” is uncommon French (frequency #74,083 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,083
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de impératif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imperatives · impératives · French
impératives · rank #74,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,083
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impunie
Nearest frequency peer: impunie (-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 « impératives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- impalpable
impalpable
25,921 corpus weight
- imperméabil…
imperméabilité
25,920 corpus weight
- impunie
impunie
25,919 corpus weight
- impératives
impératives
25,918 corpus weight
- inaccessibi…
inaccessibilité
25,917 corpus weight
- inapplicabl…
inapplicables
25,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impératives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impératives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impératives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impératives is uncommon French at frequency #74,083 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de impératif.".
impératives doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is impératives, spelled I-M-P-É-R-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de impératif.
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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