imposaient
\ɛ̃.po.zɛ\
The verdict
“imposaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,591. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,591
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imposaient · imposaient · French
imposaient · rank #48,591 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,591
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immédiateté
Nearest frequency peer: immédiateté (-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 « imposaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- idéologue
idéologue
51,413 corpus weight
- iec
iec
51,412 corpus weight
- immédiateté
immédiateté
51,411 corpus weight
- imposaient
imposaient
51,410 corpus weight
- imprudente
imprudente
51,409 corpus weight
- impunis
impunis
51,408 corpus weight
What this shows « imposaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imposaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.po.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imposaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around imposaient (IPA \ɛ̃.po.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,591 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for imposaient, with forms such as "immposaient", "imopsaient", and "impoasient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "imposant", "imposent", "imposait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is imposaient, spelled I-M-P-O-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imposaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crois donc qu’il existe moins de raisons pour attribuer le fronton de marbre à un Attique qu’à un Ionien; ou bien, si son auteur était Attique d’origine, il s’était fait Ionien d’esprit et de style, et les belles œuvres ioniennes qui, à Delphes, écrasaient toutes leurs voisines et s’imposaient à l’admiration générale, avaient dû achever de le « désatti…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immposaient
- imopsaient
- impoasient
- imposaeint
- imposaiennt
- imposaientt
- imposaietn
- imposainet
- imposiaent
- impossaient
- impposaient
- impsoaient
- ipmosaient
- miposaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imposaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).