impressions
\ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“impressions” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,334
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de impression.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impressions · impressions · French
impressions · rank #9,334 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,334
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH illustrer
Nearest frequency peer: illustrer (-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 « impressions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hybride
hybride
90,670 corpus weight
- idéologique
idéologique
90,669 corpus weight
- illustrer
illustrer
90,668 corpus weight
- impressions
impressions
90,667 corpus weight
- inacceptable
inacceptable
90,666 corpus weight
- indifférence
indifférence
90,665 corpus weight
What this shows « impressions » 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 | impressions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impressions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around impressions (IPA \ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,334 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de impression.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for impressions, with forms such as "immpressions", "imperssions", and "imppressions". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impression", "impressionne", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is impressions, spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de impression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impressions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le citoyen Tracy, mon collègue au Sénat, et mon confrère à l’Institut national, prouve, avec beaucoup de sagacité, que toute idée de corps extérieurs suppose des impressions de résistance, et que les impressions de résistance ne deviennent distinctes que par le sentiment du mouvement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpressions
- imperssions
- imppressions
- impresions
- impresisons
- impressinos
- impressionns
- impressionss
- impressiosn
- impressoins
- imprressions
- imprsesions
- imrpessions
- ipmressions
- mipressions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impressions - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).