impotent
The verdict
“impotent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,813 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,813
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est infirme, privé du mouvement, privé de l’usage d’un bras, d’une jambe, etc., soit par vice de nature, soit par accident.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impotent · impotent · French
impotent · rank #86,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,813
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imparables
Nearest frequency peer: imparables (-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 « impotent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immanquables
immanquables
13,191 corpus weight
- impactera
impactera
13,190 corpus weight
- imparables
imparables
13,189 corpus weight
- impotent
impotent
13,188 corpus weight
- impudent
impudent
13,186 corpus weight
- imputent
imputent
13,185 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impotent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impotent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impotent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impotent is uncommon French at frequency #86,813 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est infirme, privé du mouvement, privé de l’usage d’un bras, d’une jambe, etc., soit par vice de nature, soit par accident.".
impotent has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is impotent, spelled I-M-P-O-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est infirme, privé du mouvement, privé de l’usage d’un bras, d’une jambe, etc., soit par vice de nature, soit par accident.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impotent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La goutte l’a rendu impotent.
Il est impotent d’un bras.
This word in other languages
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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