imperator
\ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“imperator” is uncommon French (frequency #56,665 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,665
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de impérator.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imperator · imperator · French
imperator · rank #56,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,665
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immunes
Nearest frequency peer: immunes (-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 « imperator »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immersif
immersif
43,339 corpus weight
- immigrantes
immigrantes
43,338 corpus weight
- immunes
immunes
43,337 corpus weight
- imperator
imperator
43,336 corpus weight
- impitoyable…
impitoyablement
43,335 corpus weight
- implémenté
implémenté
43,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imperator » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imperator |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imperator » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imperator is uncommon French at frequency #56,665 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pe.ʁa.tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de impérator.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for imperator, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is imperator, spelled I-M-P-E-R-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Variante de impérator.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imperator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au temps de Sénèque, la République était morte, morte ou en train de mourir, personne n’en savait trop rien parce que cela n’intéressait personne. Des nabots, des vampires sortaient de leurs trous, qui se faisaient appeler imperator , c’est-à-dire guide du peuple.
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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