impulse

Name: impulse, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɛ̃.pyls\

/\ɛ̃.pyls\/ verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“impulse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,954
frequency rank, French: 3,561
“I” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de impulser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-impulse · impulse · French

impulse · rank #47,954 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-MID #47,954
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 3,561
PHOTO-FINISH imprégnés

Nearest frequency peer: imprégnés (-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.

immergés

52,050
impec

52,049
imprégnés

52,048
impulse

52,047
inadmissibl…

52,046
inadéquate

52,045

What this shows « impulse » 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).

impulse vs impute

71% similar

impulse vs impulsif

75% similar

impulse vs impulsive

78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for impulse
Property	Value
Headword	impulse
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
IPA	\ɛ̃.pyls\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#47,954
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impulse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.impulsese place ici:

#47,954

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « imprégnés » (#47,953), « inadmissibles » (#47,955), « impec » (#47,952). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « impulse » est au #47,954. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around impulse (IPA \ɛ̃.pyls\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,954 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for impulse, with forms such as "immpulse", "impluse", and "imppulse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "impute", "impulsif", "impulsive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is impulse, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-E.

Definition

1
Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de impulser.
2
Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de impulser.
3
Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de impulser.
4
Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de impulser.
5
Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de impulser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

immpulse
impluse
imppulse
impules
impullse
impulsse
impusle
imuplse
ipmulse
mipulse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impulse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "impulse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impulse"?

"impulse" is spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.pyls\.

What does "impulse" mean?

As a verb, "impulse" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de impulser.

What words are commonly confused with "impulse"?

"impulse" is commonly confused with "impute", "impulsif", "impulsive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "impulse"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "impulse" is \ɛ̃.pyls\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "impulse" come from?

"impulse" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impulse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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