imposante
\ɛ̃.pɔ.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“imposante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,903
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de imposant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imposante · imposante · French
imposante · rank #15,903 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,903
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH horizontal
Nearest frequency peer: horizontal (-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 « imposante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hashtag
hashtag
84,101 corpus weight
- hiérarchique
hiérarchique
84,100 corpus weight
- horizontal
horizontal
84,099 corpus weight
- imposante
imposante
84,098 corpus weight
- impressionn…
impressionner
84,097 corpus weight
- inclinaison
inclinaison
84,096 corpus weight
What this shows « imposante » 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 | imposante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔ.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imposante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around imposante (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔ.zɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,903 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de imposant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for imposante, with forms such as "immposante", "imopsante", and "impoasnte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "imposent", "imposants", "imposantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is imposante, spelled I-M-P-O-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de imposant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imposante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’imposante citoyenne Ragon veillait au linge du commis, et les deux marchands se familiarisèrent avec lui.
Parmi les autres véhicules, le pick-up se distinguait du troupeau comme un animal issu des âges préhistoriques fascinant immédiatement les quelques gamins embarqués, yeux grands ouverts, attirés par cette chose ferrailleuse, imposante comme une armure d’iguanodon agrémentée d’amulettes en plastoc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immposante
- imopsante
- impoasnte
- imposanet
- imposannte
- imposantte
- imposatne
- imposnate
- impossante
- impposante
- impsoante
- ipmosante
- miposante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imposante - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).