imposait

\ɛ̃.po.zɛ\

/\ɛ̃.po.zɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“imposait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,759. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,759
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-imposait · imposait · French

imposait · rank #20,759 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,759
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH immortels

Nearest frequency peer: immortels (-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 « imposait »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « imposait » 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).

imposait vs imposant
88% similar
imposait vs imposent
75% similar
imposait vs imposante
78% similar

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

Key facts for imposait
PropertyValue
Headwordimposait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.po.zɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,759
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imposait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).imposaitse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « immortels » (#20,758), « inaugure » (#20,760), « incompétent » (#20,761). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « imposait » est au #20,759. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around imposait (IPA \ɛ̃.po.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,759 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for imposait, with forms such as "immposait", "imopsait", and "impoasit". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "imposant", "imposent", "imposante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is imposait, spelled I-M-P-O-S-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En particulier, le juge italien demandait si cette disposition imposait aux juges nationaux de désappliquer les normes internes contraires au droit de la C.E.D.H.
  2. Mais l’exception ainsi faite, en faveur de la Défense Nationale, s’imposait à l’évidence ; la question est d’ailleurs aujourd’hui dénuée d’intérêt, la loi de 1978 ayant « décorrectionnalisé » la contrefaçon en matière de brevet.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • immposait
  • imopsait
  • impoasit
  • imposaitt
  • imposati
  • imposiat
  • impossait
  • impposait
  • impsoait
  • ipmosait
  • miposait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imposait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

immposait1imopsait2impoasit2imposaitt1imposati2imposiat2impossait1impposait1
Edit distance from "imposait"

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 "imposait"?
"imposait" is spelled I-M-P-O-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.po.zɛ\.
What does "imposait" mean?
As a verb, "imposait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imposer.
What words are commonly confused with "imposait"?
"imposait" is commonly confused with "imposant", "imposent", "imposante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "imposait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imposait" is \ɛ̃.po.zɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imposait" come from?
"imposait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "imposait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list