imposer

/\ɛ̃.po.ze\/ verb

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.

Key facts for imposer
PropertyValue
Headwordimposer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.po.ze\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,580
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of imposer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Mettre dessus.
  2. 2
    Prescrire ou infliger à quelqu’un une chose incommode, pénible ou difficile.
  3. 3
    Rendre obligatoire.
  4. 4
    Forcer quelqu’un pour qu’il accueille une personne ou pour qu’il accepte une chose.
  5. 5
    Inspirer du respect, de l’admiration, de la crainte, faire impression.
  6. 6
    Inspirer du respect.
  7. 7
    Taxer, en parlant des tributs, des droits, des contributions, des taxes, des impôts que le gouvernement exige des particuliers dans l’intérêt commun.
  8. 8
    Se dit aussi des matières sur lesquelles on met des impôts.
  9. 9
    Ranger, 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.
  10. 10
    Imposer ses convictions, sa domination.

This word in other languages

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"

immposer8imopser7impoesr7imposerr8imposre7imposser8impposer8impsoer7
Misspelling Variants of "imposer"

Frequency rank: #2,580 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "imposer"?
"imposer" is spelled I-M-P-O-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.po.ze\.
What does "imposer" mean?
As a verb, "imposer" means: Mettre dessus.
What words are commonly confused with "imposer"?
"imposer" is commonly confused with "imputer", "imposera", "imposteur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "imposer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imposer" is \ɛ̃.po.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imposer" come from?
"imposer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.