impropres
\ɛ̃.pʁɔpʁ\
The verdict
“impropres” is uncommon French (frequency #54,014 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,014
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de impropre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impropres · impropres · French
impropres · rank #54,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,014
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impies
Nearest frequency peer: impies (-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 « impropres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hésiterait
hésiterait
45,990 corpus weight
- ibuprofène
ibuprofène
45,989 corpus weight
- impies
impies
45,988 corpus weight
- impropres
impropres
45,987 corpus weight
- impure
impure
45,986 corpus weight
- impérissable
impérissable
45,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impropres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impropres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɔpʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impropres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impropres is uncommon French at frequency #54,014 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pʁɔpʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de impropre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for impropres, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 impropres, spelled I-M-P-R-O-P-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de impropre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impropres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’inspection ante-mortem peut améliorer l’efficacité de l’opération en éliminant un certain nombre d’animaux qui seraient impropres à la consommation.
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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