impôt
\ɛ̃.po\
The verdict
“impôt” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,227
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prélèvement pécuniaire, établi par la loi, obligatoire et sans contrepartie directe, perçu par l’État ou les collectivités publiques afin de financer les dépenses publiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impot · impôt · French
impôt · rank #2,227 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH fonctionnement
Nearest frequency peer: fonctionnement (-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 « impôt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- euh
euh
97,777 corpus weight
- fonctionne
fonctionne
97,776 corpus weight
- fonctionnem…
fonctionnement
97,775 corpus weight
- impôt
impôt
97,774 corpus weight
- individus
individus
97,773 corpus weight
- initiative
initiative
97,772 corpus weight
What this shows « impôt » 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 | impôt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.po\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impôt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around impôt (IPA \ɛ̃.po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,227 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for impôt, with forms such as "immpôt", "impot", and "imppôt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "iot", "iPod", "impro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is impôt, spelled I-M-P-Ô-T.
Definition
- 1Prélèvement pécuniaire, établi par la loi, obligatoire et sans contrepartie directe, perçu par l’État ou les collectivités publiques afin de financer les dépenses publiques.
- 2Ce qu’on paie pour des besoins imaginaires, pour des plaisirs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impôt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Propriétaires, le Souverain & toute la Nation ont un grand intérêt que l’impôt soit établi en entier sur le revenu des terres immédiatement ; car toute autre forme d’imposition seroit contre l’ordre naturel, parce qu’elle seroit préjudiciable à la réproduction & à l’impôt, & que l’impôt retomberoit sur l’impôt même.
Nous avons dit que l’impôt sera odieux, quel qu’en soit le montant, tant qu’il prendra dans la bourse du contribuable, pour ne rien y rapporter.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpôt
- impot
- imppôt
- imptô
- impôtt
- imôpt
- ipmôt
- mipôt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impôt - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impôt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).