impôts
\ɛ̃.po\
The verdict
“impôts” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,368
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Pluriel de impôt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impots · impôts · French
impôts · rank #2,368 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH grosses
Nearest frequency peer: grosses (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “impôts”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fier
fier
97,636 corpus weight
- George
George
97,635 corpus weight
- grosses
grosses
97,634 corpus weight
- impôts
impôts
97,633 corpus weight
- italien
italien
97,632 corpus weight
- lever
lever
97,631 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “impôts” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | impôts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “impôts” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around impôts (IPA \ɛ̃.po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,368 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de impôt.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for impôts, with forms such as "immpôts", "impots", and "imppôts". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "impute", "impôt", "îlots", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is impôts, spelled I-M-P-Ô-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de impôt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impôts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les remettre à flot, il employa le salvateur moyen à la disposition des politiques : il augmenta les impôts.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpôts
- impots
- imppôts
- imptôs
- impôst
- impôtss
- impôtts
- imôpts
- ipmôts
- mipôts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impôts - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impôts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "impôts". Here's where to go from here.
- "impôts" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "impute". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,368 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.