impressionner
\ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“impressionner” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,904
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produire par photographie une impression sur une surface photosensible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impressionner · impressionner · French
impressionner · rank #15,904 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,904
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imposante
Nearest frequency peer: imposante (-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 « impressionner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hiérarchique
hiérarchique
84,100 corpus weight
- horizontal
horizontal
84,099 corpus weight
- imposante
imposante
84,098 corpus weight
- impressionn…
impressionner
84,097 corpus weight
- inclinaison
inclinaison
84,096 corpus weight
- indiquait
indiquait
84,095 corpus weight
What this shows « impressionner » 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 | impressionner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #15,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impressionner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around impressionner (IPA \ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,904 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for impressionner, with forms such as "immpressionner", "imperssionner", and "imppressionner". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impressionne", "impressionnée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is impressionner, spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Produire par photographie une impression sur une surface photosensible.
- 2Causer des impressions ; émouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impressionner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que se comporteraient, par exemple, des rayons lumineux rouges intenses qui traverseraient une plaque photographique sans l’impressionner, parce que ces rayons ne sont pas absorbés par le sel d’argent.
En impressionnant le film avec des intervalles de temps suffisamment écartés, et en le projetant ensuite dans les limites de temps usuelles, on obtient une augmentation de la vitesse du phénomène, une sorte d’exagération des ordonnées de sa courbe, qui permet à l’œil de se rendre compte de beaucoup de détails inaperçus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpressionner
- imperssionner
- imppressionner
- impresionner
- impresisonner
- impressinoner
- impressionenr
- impressioner
- impressionnerr
- impressionnre
- impressoinner
- imprressionner
- imprsesionner
- imrpessionner
- ipmressionner
- mipressionner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impressionner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).