imprimait
\ɛ̃.pʁi.mɛ\
The verdict
“imprimait” is uncommon French (frequency #98,080 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,080
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imprimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imprimait · imprimait · French
imprimait · rank #98,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,080
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprimatur
Nearest frequency peer: imprimatur (+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 « imprimait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Imogen
Imogen
1,924 corpus weight
- impassibili…
impassibilité
1,923 corpus weight
- imprimait
imprimait
1,921 corpus weight
- imprimatur
imprimatur
1,920 corpus weight
- incitées
incitées
1,919 corpus weight
- incolores
incolores
1,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imprimait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imprimait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁi.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imprimait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imprimait is uncommon French at frequency #98,080 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁi.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imprimer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for imprimait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is imprimait, spelled I-M-P-R-I-M-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imprimer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imprimait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’où diable vient-elle si matin ? se demanda-t-il en analysant le mouvement onduleux de la robe auquel elle imprimait une grâce peut-être exagérée.
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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