impies
\ɛ̃.pi\
The verdict
“impies” is uncommon French (frequency #54,013 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,013
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de impie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impies · impies · French
impies · rank #54,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,013
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ibuprofène
Nearest frequency peer: ibuprofène (-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 « impies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hutus
Hutus
45,991 corpus weight
- hésiterait
hésiterait
45,990 corpus weight
- ibuprofène
ibuprofène
45,989 corpus weight
- impies
impies
45,988 corpus weight
- impropres
impropres
45,987 corpus weight
- impure
impure
45,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impies is uncommon French at frequency #54,013 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de impie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for impies, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is impies, spelled I-M-P-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de impie.
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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