imprécations
\ɛ̃.pʁe.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“imprécations” is uncommon French (frequency #91,807 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,807
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de imprécation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imprecations · imprécations · French
imprécations · rank #91,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,807
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imperio
Nearest frequency peer: imperio (-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 « imprécations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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8,198 corpus weight
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8,196 corpus weight
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imperio
8,195 corpus weight
- imprécations
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8,194 corpus weight
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8,192 corpus weight
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imprécations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imprécations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁe.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imprécations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imprécations is uncommon French at frequency #91,807 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁe.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de imprécation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for imprécations, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is imprécations, spelled I-M-P-R-É-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de imprécation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imprécations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En dépit des relations tendues entre Juifs et nazoréens qui se dégagent de ce texte et en dépit des imprécations quotidiennes, Épiphane ne parle pas de l’exclusion des nazoréens de la Synagogue.
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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