impudeur
\ɛ̃.py.dœʁ\
The verdict
“impudeur” is uncommon French (frequency #67,593 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,593
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de pudeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impudeur · impudeur · French
impudeur · rank #67,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,593
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impolis
Nearest frequency peer: impolis (-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 « impudeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- impaires
impaires
32,410 corpus weight
- impolis
impolis
32,409 corpus weight
- impudeur
impudeur
32,408 corpus weight
- imputabilité
imputabilité
32,407 corpus weight
- incapacités
incapacités
32,406 corpus weight
- incarcérées
incarcérées
32,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impudeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impudeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.py.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impudeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impudeur is uncommon French at frequency #67,593 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.py.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for impudeur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is impudeur, spelled I-M-P-U-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Défaut de pudeur.
- 2Défaut de la retenue qu’exige le sentiment de la dignité personnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impudeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leurs chansons et les gestes de leur danse étaient d’une impudeur ardente qui enflammait peu à peu les spectateurs très nombreux ce soir-là.
[…] la chaste fille fit tomber ses vêtements avec une impudeur sublime, et, relevant ses cheveux comme Aphrodite sortant de la mer, elle se tint debout sous le rayon lumineux.
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); 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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