impopulaire
\ɛ̃.pɔ.py.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“impopulaire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,240
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui déplaît au peuple, qui n’a pas l’affection du peuple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impopulaire · impopulaire · French
impopulaire · rank #24,240 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,240
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH humoristiques
Nearest frequency peer: humoristiques (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « impopulaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- houlette
houlette
75,764 corpus weight
- HTC
HTC
75,763 corpus weight
- humoristiqu…
humoristiques
75,762 corpus weight
- impopulaire
impopulaire
75,761 corpus weight
- imprimantes
imprimantes
75,760 corpus weight
- improviser
improviser
75,759 corpus weight
What this shows « impopulaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impopulaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔ.py.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impopulaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around impopulaire (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔ.py.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,240 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for impopulaire, with forms such as "immpopulaire", "imoppulaire", and "impopluaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impopularité", "impopulaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 impopulaire, spelled I-M-P-O-P-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui déplaît au peuple, qui n’a pas l’affection du peuple.
- 2Qui n’est pas conforme aux désirs du peuple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impopulaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; les taxes impopulaires, abolies en juin 1908 en don de joyeux avènement, avaient été rétablies et considérablement renforcées.
Lois impopulaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpopulaire
- imoppulaire
- impopluaire
- impoppulaire
- impopualire
- impopulaier
- impopulairre
- impopularie
- impopuliare
- impopullaire
- impouplaire
- imppopulaire
- imppoulaire
- ipmopulaire
- mipopulaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impopulaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impopulaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).