improbabilité
\ɛ̃.pʁɔ.ba.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“improbabilité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est improbable ; événement non probable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-improbabilite · improbabilité · French
improbabilité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | improbabilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.ba.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
improbabilité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.ba.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est improbable ; événement non probable.".
improbabilité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is improbabilité, spelled I-M-P-R-O-B-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est improbable ; événement non probable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how improbabilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quiconque a vu un bac, chargé d'un poids considérable, flotter sur son mobile élément, ne trouvera aucune improbabilité qu'il ait chaviré, eut-il fait sans accident le même trajet, non pas deux mille fois, mais dix mille. Si, au lieu d'un radeau pesamment chargé, il s'agissait d'un radeau de liège qui ne portât rien, c'est alors qu'il y aurait de l’improb…
Plus loin, je tenterai de regarder à l’intérieur de ce flou, d’imaginer comment il est relié à l’étrange improbabilité initiale de l’univers.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.