imposition des mains
The verdict
“imposition des mains” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Action d’imposer les mains, geste religieux pratiqué notamment dans les baptêmes catholiques et les ordinations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imposition des mains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ de mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “imposition des mains” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for imposition des mains is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ de mɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action d’imposer les mains, geste religieux pratiqué notamment dans les baptêmes catholiques et les ordinations.".
No misspelling variants are generated for imposition des mains in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 imposition des mains, spelled I-M-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’imposer les mains, geste religieux pratiqué notamment dans les baptêmes catholiques et les ordinations.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-M-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-E-S- -M-A-I-N-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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