impéritie
\ɛ̃.pe.ʁi.si\
The verdict
“impéritie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Incapacité, inhabileté ; ignorance de ce qu’on doit savoir dans sa profession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imperitie · impéritie · French
impéritie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | impéritie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.ʁi.si\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
impéritie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pe.ʁi.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Incapacité, inhabileté ; ignorance de ce qu’on doit savoir dans sa profession.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for impéritie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is impéritie, spelled I-M-P-É-R-I-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Incapacité, inhabileté ; ignorance de ce qu’on doit savoir dans sa profession.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impéritie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faut-il chercher dans la faiblesse ou l’impéritie du maréchal Bazaine les motifs de sa conduite, ou doit-on l’attribuer à de mesquines et égoïstes passions auxquelles il aurait sacrifié les intérêts de son armée et de son pays ?
Ce volume […] convaincra tous ceux qui le liront que, d’avril 1854 à juillet 1870, la France a constamment marché vers le fatal dénoûment de janvier 1871, par le fait de l’impéritie de l’empereur Napoléon III et de l’incurie de ses ministres.
This word in other languages
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.