impertinemment
\ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.na.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“impertinemment” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mal à propos, d’une manière sotte, extravagante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impertinemment · impertinemment · French
impertinemment · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 | impertinemment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.na.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
impertinemment is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.na.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for impertinemment in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 impertinemment, spelled I-M-P-E-R-T-I-N-E-M-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Mal à propos, d’une manière sotte, extravagante.
- 2Avec impertinence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impertinemment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne m’arrête pas à réfuter les lieux où vous me faites parler impertinemment, parce qu’il me suffit d’avoir une fois averti le lecteur que vous ne gardez pas toute la fidélité qui est due au rapport des paroles d’autrui.
Au lieu de faire paroistre un Ange dans un grand ciel dont l’ouverture eût fait celle du theatre, ils l’ont fait venir quelques fois à pied, et quelques fois dans une machine impertinemment faite et impertinemment conduite : au lieu de faire voir dans le renfondrement et en perspective, l’image de la Pucelle au milieu d’un feu allumé et environné d’un gra…
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