imposer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,580
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
imposer is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre dessus. Pronounced \ɛ̃.po.ze\. It ranks #2,580 in French word frequency. Often confused with imputer and imposera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imposer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for imposer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.po.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,580 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for imposer, with forms such as "immposer", "imopser", and "impoesr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "imputer", "imposera", "imposteur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is imposer, spelled I-M-P-O-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre dessus.
- 2Prescrire ou infliger à quelqu’un une chose incommode, pénible ou difficile.
- 3Rendre obligatoire.
- 4Forcer quelqu’un pour qu’il accueille une personne ou pour qu’il accepte une chose.
- 5Inspirer du respect, de l’admiration, de la crainte, faire impression.
- 6Inspirer du respect.
- 7Taxer, en parlant des tributs, des droits, des contributions, des taxes, des impôts que le gouvernement exige des particuliers dans l’intérêt commun.
- 8Se dit aussi des matières sur lesquelles on met des impôts.
- 9Ranger, disposer les pages qui doivent composer une forme, de telle sorte qu’elles se trouvent dans l’ordre convenable sur la feuille imprimée et pliée.
- 10Imposer ses convictions, sa domination.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immposer,imopser,impoesr,imposerr,imposre,imposser,impposer,impsoer,ipmoser,miposer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imposer
Misspelling Variants of "imposer"
Frequency rank: #2,580 in French
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