impétueuse
\ɛ̃.pe.tɥøz\
The verdict
“impétueuse” is uncommon French (frequency #72,421 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,421
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de impétueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impetueuse · impétueuse · French
impétueuse · rank #72,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,421
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprègnent
Nearest frequency peer: imprègnent (-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 « impétueuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- illustrait
illustrait
27,583 corpus weight
- impartis
impartis
27,582 corpus weight
- imprègnent
imprègnent
27,581 corpus weight
- impétueuse
impétueuse
27,580 corpus weight
- inaugura
inaugura
27,578 corpus weight
- incestueuse
incestueuse
27,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impétueuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impétueuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pe.tɥøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impétueuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impétueuse is uncommon French at frequency #72,421 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pe.tɥøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de impétueux.".
impétueuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is impétueuse, spelled I-M-P-É-T-U-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de impétueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impétueuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De taille moyenne, il avait une grosse tête et des traits qui exprimaient ténacité e audace, accentuées par sa manière impétueuse et bravache de regarder droit dans les yeux. — (Andrés Trapiello, Le Club du crime parfait, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, collection « Points policier », 2010, ISBN 978-2-7578-1954-8, page 73)
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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