imposant
\ɛ̃.po.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“imposant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,578
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui impose, qui est propre à s’attirer de l’attention, des égards, du respect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imposant · imposant · French
imposant · rank #7,578 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,578
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immigrés
Nearest frequency peer: immigrés (-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 « imposant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- guérir
guérir
92,426 corpus weight
- hotel
hotel
92,425 corpus weight
- immigrés
immigrés
92,424 corpus weight
- imposant
imposant
92,423 corpus weight
- imprimer
imprimer
92,422 corpus weight
- infanterie
infanterie
92,421 corpus weight
What this shows « imposant » 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 | imposant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.po.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imposant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around imposant (IPA \ɛ̃.po.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,578 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for imposant, with forms such as "immposant", "imopsant", and "impoasnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "imposent", "imposante", "imposants", and more, 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is imposant, spelled I-M-P-O-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui impose, qui est propre à s’attirer de l’attention, des égards, du respect.
- 2Qui élève l’âme et qui la remplit d’une admiration mêlée de respect.
- 3Qui est considérable au point d’inspirer la crainte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imposant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], et deux pages parurent, portant des flambeaux et éclairant une femme d’une taille imposante, d’un maintien majestueux, et surtout d’une admirable beauté.
Dans les environs, deux merveilleuses églises : celle de Ham-en-Artois, vestige imposant et vénérable de l’abbaye Saint-Sauveur; celle de Guarbecque, près de la petite ville de Saint-Venant, où triomphe aussi l’art roman.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immposant
- imopsant
- impoasnt
- imposannt
- imposantt
- imposatn
- imposnat
- impossant
- impposant
- impsoant
- ipmosant
- miposant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imposant - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).