impérial
\ɛ̃.pe.ʁjal\
The verdict
“impérial” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,024
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à un empereur ou à un empire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imperial · impérial · French
impérial · rank #9,024 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,024
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indirectement
Nearest frequency peer: indirectement (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « impérial »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- honnêteté
honnêteté
90,980 corpus weight
- hypocrisie
hypocrisie
90,979 corpus weight
- impérial
impérial
90,977 corpus weight
- indirecteme…
indirectement
90,976 corpus weight
- insurrection
insurrection
90,975 corpus weight
- ix
ix
90,974 corpus weight
What this shows « impérial » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impérial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.ʁjal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impérial »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around impérial (IPA \ɛ̃.pe.ʁjal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,024 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for impérial, with forms such as "immpérial", "imperial", and "imppérial". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Imperium", "impériale", "impériaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 impérial, spelled I-M-P-É-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à un empereur ou à un empire.
- 2Qui domine sa discipline avec talent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impérial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit Akio, ultraséduisant, poser en uniforme de garde impérial entre ses parents, qui sourient de fierté.
Dans ce but il demanda à la régence d’Ensisheim communication de l’engagement pris par les parties guerroyantes de respecter les possessions autrichiennes, ainsi que les villes impériales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpérial
- imperial
- imppérial
- impréial
- impéiral
- impérail
- impériall
- impérila
- impérrial
- iméprial
- ipmérial
- mipérial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impérial - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impérial", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).