impuissance
\ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“impuissance” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,614
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de pouvoir, de moyens pour faire quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impuissance · impuissance · French
impuissance · rank #13,614 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,614
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH homophobe
Nearest frequency peer: homophobe (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « impuissance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- haram
haram
86,390 corpus weight
- hercule
hercule
86,389 corpus weight
- homophobe
homophobe
86,388 corpus weight
- impuissance
impuissance
86,387 corpus weight
- incompétence
incompétence
86,385 corpus weight
- indéniable
indéniable
86,384 corpus weight
What this shows « impuissance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impuissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impuissance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around impuissance (IPA \ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,614 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for impuissance, with forms such as "immpuissance", "impiussance", and "imppuissance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "impuissant", "impuissants", "impuissante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is impuissance, spelled I-M-P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de pouvoir, de moyens pour faire quelque chose.
- 2Incapacité sexuelle.
- 3Sentiment d’impuissance, impression de n’avoir aucun pouvoir ou levier d’action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impuissance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’impuissance intellectuelle aboutit souvent au fractionnement de l’objet d’étude, à la transformation en salami de l’histoire humaine.
Les délinquants s’amusèrent à comploter des délits inconstatables, et la vieille moustache enragea de son impuissance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpuissance
- impiussance
- imppuissance
- impuisance
- impuisasnce
- impuissacne
- impuissancce
- impuissanec
- impuissannce
- impuissnace
- impusisance
- imupissance
- ipmuissance
- mipuissance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impuissance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).