impertinente
\ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“impertinente” is uncommon French (frequency #64,525 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,525
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de l’adjectif impertinent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impertinente · impertinente · French
impertinente · rank #64,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,525
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impatienter
Nearest frequency peer: impatienter (-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 « impertinente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imi
imi
35,478 corpus weight
- impatienter
impatienter
35,477 corpus weight
- impertinente
impertinente
35,476 corpus weight
- inaliénables
inaliénables
35,475 corpus weight
- incriminati…
incrimination
35,474 corpus weight
- inenvisagea…
inenvisageable
35,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impertinente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impertinente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impertinente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impertinente is uncommon French at frequency #64,525 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ti.nɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de l’adjectif impertinent.".
impertinente doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 impertinente, spelled I-M-P-E-R-T-I-N-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de l’adjectif impertinent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impertinente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que Zola fait d’Offenbach « le dieu de sauterie », le directeur d’un « bastringue », que Barbey d’Aurevilly l’accuse de « voyoucratiser » le théâtre, Nietzsche y voit « une musique française avec un esprit voltairien, libre, impertinente, avec un petit grincement sardonique mais claire, spirituelle jusqu’à la banalité (il ne farde rien) et dépourvu…
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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