importance

Name: importance, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\

/\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“importance” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,182
frequency rank, French: 3,561
“I” headwords: 15
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui fait qu’une chose est d’un grand intérêt, est considérable par elle-même, ou par les circonstances qui l’accompagnent, ou par les suites qu’elle peut avoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-importance · importance · French

importance · rank #1,182 · 15 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #1,182
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-HIGH 15 variants
BOOK-MID 3,561
PHOTO-FINISH hôpital

Nearest frequency peer: hôpital (-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.

dossier

98,822
hiver

98,821
hôpital

98,820
importance

98,819
lutte

98,817
Marine

98,816

What this shows « importance » 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).

importance vs important

80% similar

importance vs importante

90% similar

importance vs importants

80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for importance
Property	Value
Headword	importance
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#1,182
Misspellings tracked	15
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « importance »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.importancese place ici:

#1,182

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « hôpital » (#1,181), « hiver » (#1,180), « lutte » (#1,184). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « importance » est au #1,182. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around importance (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,182 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for importance, with forms such as "immportance", "imoprtance", and "imporatnce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "important", "importante", "importants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is importance, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E.

Definition

1
Ce qui fait qu’une chose est d’un grand intérêt, est considérable par elle-même, ou par les circonstances qui l’accompagnent, ou par les suites qu’elle peut avoir.
2
Caractère de ce qui est considérable en nombre, en quantité, en volume, en dimension.
3
Autorité, crédit, influence.
4
Caractère de ceux qui montrent de l’orgueil, de la vanité et veulent paraître plus considérables qu’ils ne le sont réellement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how importance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Le soldat des guerres de la Liberté attachait une importance presque superstitieuse à l’accomplissement des moindres consignes. De là résulte qu'il n'éprouvait aucune pitié pour les généraux ou les fonctionnaires qu'il voyait guillotiner après quelque défaite, sous l'inculpation de manquement à leur devoir ; […].
Le proviseur adjoint l'écoute poliment et acquiesce à ses suggestions, le valorise et lui donne de l’importance. Je ne sais pas s'il est sincère.

Antonyms

inimportance

This word in other languages

importance(English)importancia(Español)Wichtigkeit(Deutsch)importância(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

immportance
imoprtance
imporatnce
imporrtance
importacne
importancce
importanec
importannce
importnace
importtance
impotrance
impportance
improtance
ipmortance
miportance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of importance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "importance"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "importance"?

"importance" is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\.

What does "importance" mean?

As a noun, "importance" means: Ce qui fait qu’une chose est d’un grand intérêt, est considérable par elle-même, ou par les circonstances qui l’accompagnent, ou par les suites qu’elle peut avoir.

What words are commonly confused with "importance"?

"importance" is commonly confused with "important", "importante", "importants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "importance"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "importance" is \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "importance" come from?

"importance" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "importance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

américains#1,175 professeur#1,170 représente#1,208 traitement#1,151

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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