imprimer
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imprimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁi.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Faire ou laisser une empreinte sur quelque chose, y marquer des traits, une figure.
- 2Reproduire à l’encre noire ou en couleur par l’application et la pression d’une surface sur une autre.
- 3Reproduire par des lettres sur du papier ou sur une autre surface, avec des caractères que l’on a chargés d’encre.
- 4Reproduire automatiquement de l’information à partir d’un ordinateur par l’intermédiaire d'une imprimante.
- 5Publier par la voie de l’impression, éditer, tirer.
- 6Donner à quelque chose un certain mouvement en poussant.
- 7Produire un effet.
- 8Produire chez les autres une forte impression dans l’esprit, dans le cœur, dans la mémoire.
- 9Comprendre ; 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"
Frequency rank: #7,579 in French
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