imposteur
\ɛ̃.pɔs.tœʁ\
The verdict
“imposteur” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,972
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans l’imposture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imposteur · imposteur · French
imposteur · rank #21,972 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,972
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH implantés
Nearest frequency peer: implantés (-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 « imposteur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- imaginant
imaginant
78,032 corpus weight
- implantés
implantés
78,030 corpus weight
- imposteur
imposteur
78,029 corpus weight
- inexplicable
inexplicable
78,028 corpus weight
- insuffisants
insuffisants
78,027 corpus weight
- intelligemm…
intelligemment
78,026 corpus weight
What this shows « imposteur » 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 | imposteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔs.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imposteur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around imposteur (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔs.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,972 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est dans l’imposture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for imposteur, with forms such as "immposteur", "imopsteur", and "imposetur". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "imposture", "imposteurs", "imposer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is imposteur, spelled I-M-P-O-S-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans l’imposture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imposteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
& la troiſiéme fois, ſous l’Empereur Domitien, le Senat, par un Decret ou Arrêt general, ordonna à cette engeance trompeuſe, fardée, impoſtrice de ſortir, non ſeulement de la ville ; mais même de toute l’Italie.
Les soixante-dix assistants agitent tous des encensoirs de cuivre où les poisons les plus dangereux cuisent et fument : les solanées imposteuses, la jusquiame, l’aconit, la belladone qui insinuent l’ivresse du Sabbat, la rue, la sabine qui soulagent avant terme des enfantements.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immposteur
- imopsteur
- imposetur
- impossteur
- imposteru
- imposteurr
- impostteur
- impotseur
- impposteur
- impsoteur
- ipmosteur
- miposteur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imposteur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).