important

\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\

/\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“important” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #478. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#478
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui importe ; qui est majeur, conséquent, considérable ou d’un grand intérêt.

Corpus desk

Index FR-important · important · French

important · rank #478 · 14 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #478
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH grands

Nearest frequency peer: grands (-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 « important »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « important » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

important vs imposant
78% similar
important vs importent
89% similar
important vs importante
90% similar

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

Key facts for important
PropertyValue
Headwordimportant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#478
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « important »

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « grands » (#477), « jouer » (#479), « certaines » (#476). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « important » est au #478. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around important (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #478 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for important, with forms such as "immportant", "imoprtant", and "imporatnt". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "imposant", "importent", "importante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is important, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui importe ; qui est majeur, conséquent, considérable ou d’un grand intérêt.
  2. 2
    Influent, en parlant d'une personne qui jouit d’une certaine autorité, d’un grand crédit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’écorce de chêne, employée pour le tannage des cuirs, est un élément important de la richesse forestière du département.
  2. Les landes siliceuses connaissent souvent une grande abondance de Fougères : au Pays basque la Fougère-aigle constitue d’importants pâturages qui rougeoient à l'automne.

This word in other languages

important(English)importante(Español)wichtig(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • immportant
  • imoprtant
  • imporatnt
  • imporrtant
  • importannt
  • importantt
  • importatn
  • importnat
  • importtant
  • impotrant
  • impportant
  • improtant
  • ipmortant
  • miportant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

immportant1imoprtant2imporatnt2imporrtant1importannt1importantt1importatn2importnat2
Edit distance from "important"

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 "important"?
"important" is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\.
What does "important" mean?
As an adjective, "important" means: Qui importe ; qui est majeur, conséquent, considérable ou d’un grand intérêt.
What words are commonly confused with "important"?
"important" is commonly confused with "imposant", "importent", "importante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "important"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "important" is \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "important" come from?
"important" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

certaines#476septembre#470tellement#486longtemps#454

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

cependant14 variantsentreprise14 variantspopulation14 variantsrencontre14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list