imprègnent
\ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ\
The verdict
“imprègnent” is uncommon French (frequency #72,420 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,420
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de imprégner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impregnent · imprègnent · French
imprègnent · rank #72,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,420
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impartis
Nearest frequency peer: impartis (-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 « imprègnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- illustrait
illustrait
27,583 corpus weight
- impartis
impartis
27,582 corpus weight
- imprègnent
imprègnent
27,581 corpus weight
- impétueuse
impétueuse
27,580 corpus weight
- inaugura
inaugura
27,578 corpus weight
- incestueuse
incestueuse
27,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imprègnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imprègnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imprègnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imprègnent is uncommon French at frequency #72,420 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁɛɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
imprègnent has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is imprègnent, spelled I-M-P-R-È-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de imprégner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de imprégner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imprègnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très controversés, ces pesticides sont principalement utilisés de manière préventive, en enrobage des semences : lorsque les plantes traitées poussent, tous leurs tissus (feuilles, tiges, pollen, nectar, etc.) s’imprègnent du toxique.
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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