imprescriptible
\ɛ̃.pʁɛs.kʁip.tibl\
The verdict
“imprescriptible” is uncommon French (frequency #89,812 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,812
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas susceptible de prescription.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imprescriptible · imprescriptible · French
imprescriptible · rank #89,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,812
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprenables
Nearest frequency peer: imprenables (-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 « imprescriptible »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- importaient
importaient
10,191 corpus weight
- imprenables
imprenables
10,190 corpus weight
- imprescript…
imprescriptible
10,189 corpus weight
- imprégnant
imprégnant
10,188 corpus weight
- impérissabl…
impérissables
10,187 corpus weight
- inavoué
inavoué
10,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imprescriptible » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imprescriptible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɛs.kʁip.tibl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #89,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imprescriptible » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imprescriptible is uncommon French at frequency #89,812 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁɛs.kʁip.tibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui n’est pas susceptible de prescription.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for imprescriptible in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is imprescriptible, spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas susceptible de prescription.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imprescriptible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'action en réclamation d'état est imprescriptible à l'égard de l'enfant.
La vengeance est permise, […], c’est le droit imprescriptible du faible et de l’opprimé ; cependant, elle doit être proportionnée à l’injure reçue. #* Préconisation 60 : Déclarer imprescriptibles les viols et agressions sexuelles commis contre les enfants — (Commission indépendante sur l’inceste et les violences sexuelles faites aux enfants (Ciivise), Vio…
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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