impuissants
\ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“impuissants” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,100. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,100
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de impuissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impuissants · impuissants · French
impuissants · rank #27,100 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,100
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH implantations
Nearest frequency peer: implantations (-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 « impuissants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- immortelle
immortelle
72,903 corpus weight
- implantatio…
implantations
72,902 corpus weight
- impuissants
impuissants
72,901 corpus weight
- indiscret
indiscret
72,900 corpus weight
- inefficaces
inefficaces
72,899 corpus weight
- interminist…
interministériel
72,898 corpus weight
What this shows « impuissants » 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 | impuissants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #27,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impuissants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around impuissants (IPA \ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,100 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de impuissant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for impuissants, with forms such as "immpuissants", "impiussants", and "imppuissants". 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", "impuissance", "impuissante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is impuissants, spelled I-M-P-U-I-S-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de impuissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impuissants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Telle est l’extrême division de cette race professant toutes les religions, du chamanisme à l’islamisme, et de l’orthodoxie grecque au luthéranisme; nomade avec le lapon, pastorale avec le bachkir, sédentaire et agricole avec le cultivateur esthonien ou finlandais; ayant reçu le culte et parfois la langue des uns et des autres, partout dominée par des peu…
Ses parents, désemparés, avaient été impuissants à le calmer, si bien que sa fin fut un réel soulagement pour chacun.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpuissants
- impiussants
- imppuissants
- impuisants
- impuisasnts
- impuissannts
- impuissanst
- impuissantss
- impuissantts
- impuissatns
- impuissnats
- impusisants
- imupissants
- ipmuissants
- mipuissants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impuissants - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).