importe

\ɛ̃.pɔʁt\

/\ɛ̃.pɔʁt\/ verb

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The verdict

“importe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#462
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de importer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-importe · importe · French

importe · rank #462 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #462
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH deuxième

Nearest frequency peer: deuxième (-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 « importe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « importe » 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).

importe vs impôt
57% similar
importe vs impôts
57% similar
importe vs impose
71% similar

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

Key facts for importe
PropertyValue
Headwordimporte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.pɔʁt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#462
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « importe »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « deuxième » (#461), « chambre » (#460), « juin » (#464). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « importe » est au #462. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around importe (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔʁt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #462 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for importe, with forms such as "immporte", "imoprte", and "imporet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "impôt", "impôts", "impose", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is importe, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de importer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de importer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de importer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de importer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de importer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Presque tous ont une signification qui importe au récit, mais une trop grande littéralité aurait produit en français des phrases interminables, parfois grotesques.
  2. La mort fauche. Elle fauche à tort et à travers. Peu lui importe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • immporte
  • imoprte
  • imporet
  • imporrte
  • importte
  • impotre
  • impporte
  • improte
  • ipmorte
  • miporte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of importe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

immporte1imoprte2imporet2imporrte1importte1impotre2impporte1improte2
Edit distance from "importe"

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 "importe"?
"importe" is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pɔʁt\.
What does "importe" mean?
As a verb, "importe" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de importer.
What words are commonly confused with "importe"?
"importe" is commonly confused with "impôt", "impôts", "impose". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "importe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "importe" is \ɛ̃.pɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "importe" come from?
"importe" 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 "importe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chambre#460lorsque#465musique#450anglais#475

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

grands10 variantsmembres10 variantspresque10 variantsparfois10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list