impuissante
\ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“impuissante” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,204. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,204
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de impuissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impuissante · impuissante · French
impuissante · rank #28,204 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,204
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprudent
Nearest frequency peer: imprudent (-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 « impuissante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- immobilisat…
immobilisation
71,800 corpus weight
- imparfaite
imparfaite
71,799 corpus weight
- imprudent
imprudent
71,798 corpus weight
- impuissante
impuissante
71,797 corpus weight
- impulsif
impulsif
71,796 corpus weight
- incessantes
incessantes
71,795 corpus weight
What this shows « impuissante » 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 | impuissante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impuissante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around impuissante (IPA \ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,204 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de impuissant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for impuissante, with forms such as "immpuissante", "impiussante", and "imppuissante". 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, "impuissants", "impuissant", "impuissance", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is impuissante, spelled I-M-P-U-I-S-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de impuissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impuissante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux d’entre elles sont héritées du passé: une assistance, le plus souvent impuissante, et l’euthanasie d’une part, l’acharnement thérapeutique et les soins palliatifs d’autre part.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpuissante
- impiussante
- imppuissante
- impuisante
- impuisasnte
- impuissanet
- impuissannte
- impuissantte
- impuissatne
- impuissnate
- impusisante
- imupissante
- ipmuissante
- mipuissante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impuissante - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impuissante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).