importe

/\ɛ̃.pɔʁt\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#462

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

importe is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de importer. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pɔʁt\. It ranks #462 in French word frequency. Often confused with impôt and impôts.

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

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for importe is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pɔʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #462 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for importe, with forms such as "immporte", "imoprte", and "imporet". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "impôt", "impôts", "impose", 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 importe, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: immporte,imoprte,imporet,imporrte,importte,impotre,impporte,improte,ipmorte,miporte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for importe

Misspelling Variants of "importe"

immporte8imoprte7imporet7imporrte8importte8impotre7impporte8improte7
Misspelling Variants of "importe"

Frequency rank: #462 in French

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. 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.