impolitesse
\ɛ̃.pɔ.li.tɛs\
The verdict
“impolitesse” is uncommon French (frequency #55,358 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,358
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de politesse, ignorance ou mépris des règles de la politesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impolitesse · impolitesse · French
impolitesse · rank #55,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,358
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impolie
Nearest frequency peer: impolie (-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 « impolitesse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- impactent
impactent
44,646 corpus weight
- impayées
impayées
44,645 corpus weight
- impolie
impolie
44,644 corpus weight
- impolitesse
impolitesse
44,643 corpus weight
- inaperçues
inaperçues
44,642 corpus weight
- incassable
incassable
44,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impolitesse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impolitesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔ.li.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impolitesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impolitesse is uncommon French at frequency #55,358 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɔ.li.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
impolitesse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 impolitesse, spelled I-M-P-O-L-I-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de politesse, ignorance ou mépris des règles de la politesse.
- 2Action, procédé contraire à la politesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impolitesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’infatuation et le manque d’éducation sont les sources ordinaires de l’impolitesse.
N’êtes- vous pas choqué de son impolitesse ? Cette réponse est d’une impolitesse grossière.
Antonyms
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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