imprimer

/\ɛ̃.pʁi.me\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,579

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

imprimer is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire ou laisser une empreinte sur quelque chose, y marquer des traits, une figure. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pʁi.me\. It ranks #7,579 in French word frequency. Often confused with imprimés and imprimeur.

Key facts for imprimer
PropertyValue
Headwordimprimer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.pʁi.me\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,579
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of imprimer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for imprimer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pʁi.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,579 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for imprimer, with forms such as "immprimer", "impirmer", and "impprimer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "imprimés", "imprimeur", "imprimerie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is imprimer, spelled I-M-P-R-I-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire ou laisser une empreinte sur quelque chose, y marquer des traits, une figure.
  2. 2
    Reproduire à l’encre noire ou en couleur par l’application et la pression d’une surface sur une autre.
  3. 3
    Reproduire par des lettres sur du papier ou sur une autre surface, avec des caractères que l’on a chargés d’encre.
  4. 4
    Reproduire automatiquement de l’information à partir d’un ordinateur par l’intermédiaire d'une imprimante.
  5. 5
    Publier par la voie de l’impression, éditer, tirer.
  6. 6
    Donner à quelque chose un certain mouvement en poussant.
  7. 7
    Produire un effet.
  8. 8
    Produire chez les autres une forte impression dans l’esprit, dans le cœur, dans la mémoire.
  9. 9
    Comprendre ; retenir.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: immprimer,impirmer,impprimer,impriemr,imprimerr,imprimmer,imprimre,imprmier,imprrimer,imrpimer,ipmrimer,miprimer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imprimer

Misspelling Variants of "imprimer"

immprimer9impirmer8impprimer9impriemr8imprimerr9imprimmer9imprimre8imprmier8
Misspelling Variants of "imprimer"

Frequency rank: #7,579 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "imprimer"?
"imprimer" is spelled I-M-P-R-I-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pʁi.me\.
What does "imprimer" mean?
As a verb, "imprimer" means: Faire ou laisser une empreinte sur quelque chose, y marquer des traits, une figure.
What words are commonly confused with "imprimer"?
"imprimer" is commonly confused with "imprimés", "imprimeur", "imprimerie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "imprimer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imprimer" is \ɛ̃.pʁi.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imprimer" come from?
"imprimer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.