impulser
\ɛ̃.pyl.se\
The verdict
“impulser” is uncommon French (frequency #56,027 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,027
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner une impulsion à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impulser · impulser · French
impulser · rank #56,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,027
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH idolâtre
Nearest frequency peer: idolâtre (-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 « impulser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- idle
idle
43,977 corpus weight
- idoine
idoine
43,976 corpus weight
- idolâtre
idolâtre
43,975 corpus weight
- impulser
impulser
43,974 corpus weight
- inattaquable
inattaquable
43,973 corpus weight
- incipit
incipit
43,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impulser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impulser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pyl.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impulser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impulser is uncommon French at frequency #56,027 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.pyl.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Donner une impulsion à.".
Zero misspellings are on record for impulser in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is impulser, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner une impulsion à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impulser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Presque tous les dimanches d’hiver, mon père ou ma mère, en alternance, nous conduisait à la séance en matinée du California du quartier, ceci quel qu’ait été le programme, et de très brèves séquences, à moitié comprises, dans des films d’amour, dans des bandes-annonces, ont pu impulser mon imagination.
Car en choisissant M. Nadella parmi la centaine de candidats qui avaient été identifiés pour diriger Microsoft, le conseil d’administration a souhaité impulser le changement dans une certaine continuité.
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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