improvement
\ɪmˈpɹuːv.mənt\
The verdict
“improvement” is uncommon French (frequency #76,675 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,675
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amélioration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-improvement · improvement · French
improvement · rank #76,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,675
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH importun
Nearest frequency peer: importun (-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 « improvement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- immunologiq…
immunologique
23,329 corpus weight
- importun
importun
23,327 corpus weight
- improvement
improvement
23,326 corpus weight
- improvisate…
improvisateur
23,325 corpus weight
- impulsée
impulsée
23,324 corpus weight
- inabordable
inabordable
23,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « improvement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | improvement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɪmˈpɹuːv.mənt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « improvement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
improvement is uncommon French at frequency #76,675 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɪmˈpɹuːv.mənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Amélioration.".
improvement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is improvement, spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Amélioration.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).