impitoyablement
\ɛ̃.pi.twa.ja.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“impitoyablement” is uncommon French (frequency #56,666 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,666
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière impitoyable, sans aucune pitié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impitoyablement · impitoyablement · French
impitoyablement · rank #56,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,666
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imperator
Nearest frequency peer: imperator (-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 « impitoyablement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immigrantes
immigrantes
43,338 corpus weight
- immunes
immunes
43,337 corpus weight
- imperator
imperator
43,336 corpus weight
- impitoyable…
impitoyablement
43,335 corpus weight
- implémenté
implémenté
43,334 corpus weight
- incitait
incitait
43,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impitoyablement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impitoyablement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pi.twa.ja.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #56,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impitoyablement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impitoyablement is uncommon French at frequency #56,666 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɛ̃.pi.twa.ja.blə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière impitoyable, sans aucune pitié.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for impitoyablement, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is impitoyablement, spelled I-M-P-I-T-O-Y-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière impitoyable, sans aucune pitié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impitoyablement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il replongea dans ses fleurs, sectionnant impitoyablement les boutons qui lui déplaisaient.
Mais cette fois, il n’attendit pas que son adversaire se relevât ; il se jeta sur ses genoux, l’empoigna à la gorge et serra impitoyablement.
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); 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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