impulsive
\ɛ̃.pyl.siv\
The verdict
“impulsive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,317
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de impulsif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impulsive · impulsive · French
impulsive · rank #40,317 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,317
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inadaptée
Nearest frequency peer: inadaptée (+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 « impulsive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Iliade
Iliade
59,687 corpus weight
- Imbert
Imbert
59,686 corpus weight
- impulsive
impulsive
59,684 corpus weight
- inadaptée
inadaptée
59,683 corpus weight
- inanimé
inanimé
59,682 corpus weight
- inexpérience
inexpérience
59,681 corpus weight
What this shows « impulsive » 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 | impulsive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pyl.siv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « impulsive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around impulsive (IPA \ɛ̃.pyl.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,317 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de impulsif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for impulsive, with forms such as "immpulsive", "implusive", and "imppulsive". 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, "impulse", "impulsif", "impulsion", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is impulsive, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de impulsif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impulsive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'obsession impulsive est la peur de commettre, contre sa volonté, un acte absurde, ridicule, sacrilège, immoral voire agressif ou criminel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpulsive
- implusive
- imppulsive
- impulisve
- impullsive
- impulsiev
- impulsivve
- impulssive
- impulsvie
- impuslive
- imuplsive
- ipmulsive
- mipulsive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impulsive - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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