impostures
\ɛ̃.pɔs.tyʁ\
The verdict
“impostures” is uncommon French (frequency #75,776 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,776
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de imposture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impostures · impostures · French
impostures · rank #75,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,776
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprononçable
Nearest frequency peer: imprononçable (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « impostures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immerge
immerge
24,228 corpus weight
- impatientent
impatientent
24,227 corpus weight
- impostures
impostures
24,225 corpus weight
- imprononçab…
imprononçable
24,224 corpus weight
- inadéquates
inadéquates
24,223 corpus weight
- incitée
incitée
24,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impostures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impostures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔs.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impostures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impostures is uncommon French at frequency #75,776 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pɔs.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de imposture.".
No misspelling variants are generated for impostures in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is impostures, spelled I-M-P-O-S-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de imposture.
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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