importune
\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tyn\
The verdict
“importune” is uncommon French (frequency #66,817 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,817
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme importune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-importune · importune · French
importune · rank #66,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,817
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imparfaites
Nearest frequency peer: imparfaites (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « importune »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imbécillité
imbécillité
33,187 corpus weight
- immatriculé…
immatriculées
33,186 corpus weight
- imparfaites
imparfaites
33,185 corpus weight
- importune
importune
33,184 corpus weight
- impudence
impudence
33,183 corpus weight
- inavouable
inavouable
33,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « importune » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | importune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tyn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « importune » en français
Rare enough to double-check
importune is uncommon French at frequency #66,817 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tyn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme importune.".
importune has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is importune, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme importune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how importune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était une importune, une gamine de douze ans peut-être, avec une frimousse pétillante et des éclats de malice dans le regard.
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.
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