impressionnant
\ɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“impressionnant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,680
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui impressionne, qui produit sur la sensibilité physique ou morale ou sur l’esprit des impressions, une impression vive et forte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impressionnant · impressionnant · French
impressionnant · rank #4,680 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,680
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hôpitaux
Nearest frequency peer: hôpitaux (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « impressionnant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- habitation
habitation
95,324 corpus weight
- hall
hall
95,323 corpus weight
- hôpitaux
hôpitaux
95,322 corpus weight
- impressionn…
impressionnant
95,321 corpus weight
- instance
instance
95,320 corpus weight
- interdire
interdire
95,319 corpus weight
What this shows « impressionnant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | impressionnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #4,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impressionnant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around impressionnant (IPA \ɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ.nɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,680 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui impressionne, qui produit sur la sensibilité physique ou morale ou sur l’esprit des impressions, une impression vive et forte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for impressionnant, with forms such as "immpressionnant", "imperssionnant", and "imppressionnant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "impressionnante", "impressionnants", "impressionnantes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is impressionnant, spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui impressionne, qui produit sur la sensibilité physique ou morale ou sur l’esprit des impressions, une impression vive et forte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impressionnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un peu plus tard, quand s’épaissit la brume, commence l’œuvre impressionnante des ensevelisseurs.
En dépit de sa réussite, l’Europe connaissait d'intenses frustrations. Cette réussite était pourtant éclatante. Les progrès scientifiques, technologiques et industriels y étaient impressionnants.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpressionnant
- imperssionnant
- imppressionnant
- impresionnant
- impresisonnant
- impressinonant
- impressionannt
- impressionant
- impressionnannt
- impressionnantt
- impressionnatn
- impressionnnat
- impressoinnant
- imprressionnant
- imprsesionnant
- imrpessionnant
- ipmressionnant
- mipressionnant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impressionnant - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).