impossibles
\ɛ̃.pɔ.sibl\
The verdict
“impossibles” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,056
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de impossible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impossibles · impossibles · French
impossibles · rank #14,056 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,056
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH illégaux
Nearest frequency peer: illégaux (-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 « impossibles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- her
her
85,948 corpus weight
- homophobie
homophobie
85,947 corpus weight
- illégaux
illégaux
85,946 corpus weight
- impossibles
impossibles
85,945 corpus weight
- incarner
incarner
85,944 corpus weight
- incertaine
incertaine
85,943 corpus weight
What this shows « impossibles » 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 | impossibles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔ.sibl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impossibles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around impossibles (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔ.sibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,056 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de impossible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for impossibles, with forms such as "immpossibles", "imopssibles", and "imposibles". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "impossible", "imposables", "impassible", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is impossibles, spelled I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de impossible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impossibles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être dira-t-on que si les miracles ne sont pas physiquement impossibles, ils le sont du moins moralement, comme étant contraires à la sagesse et à la majesté de l’Etre suprême.
Ils y avaient conçu leur nid, fécondé leur couche, défriché un brûlot hostile, décaillassé d’impossibles parcelles, dressé des terrasses, inventé des règles de survie…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpossibles
- imopssibles
- imposibles
- imposisbles
- impossbiles
- impossibbles
- impossibels
- impossibless
- impossiblles
- impossiblse
- impossilbes
- imppossibles
- impsosibles
- ipmossibles
- mipossibles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impossibles - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).