importantes

/\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,998

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

importantes is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin pluriel de important. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\. It ranks #1,998 in French word frequency. Often confused with importants and imposantes.

Key facts for importantes
PropertyValue
Headwordimportantes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\
Letters11
Frequency rank#1,998
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of importantes in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for importantes is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,998 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin pluriel de important.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for importantes, with forms such as "immportantes", "imoprtantes", and "imporatntes". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "importants", "imposantes", "important", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is importantes, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de important.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: immportantes,imoprtantes,imporatntes,imporrtantes,importanets,importanntes,importantess,importantse,importanttes,importatnes,importnates,importtantes,impotrantes,impportantes,improtantes,ipmortantes,miportantes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for importantes

Misspelling Variants of "importantes"

immportantes12imoprtantes11imporatntes11imporrtantes12importanets11importanntes12importantess12importantse11
Misspelling Variants of "importantes"

Frequency rank: #1,998 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "importantes"?
"importantes" is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\.
What does "importantes" mean?
As an adj, "importantes" means: Féminin pluriel de important.
What words are commonly confused with "importantes"?
"importantes" is commonly confused with "importants", "imposantes", "important". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "importantes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "importantes" is \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "importantes" come from?
"importantes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.