impulsivité
\ɛ̃.pyl.si.vi.te\
The verdict
“impulsivité” is uncommon French (frequency #51,532 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,532
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère impulsif (d’un individu).
Corpus desk
Index FR-impulsivite · impulsivité · French
impulsivité · rank #51,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,532
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imprécisions
Nearest frequency peer: imprécisions (-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 « impulsivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imaginaient
imaginaient
48,472 corpus weight
- immoler
immoler
48,471 corpus weight
- imprécisions
imprécisions
48,470 corpus weight
- impulsivité
impulsivité
48,469 corpus weight
- imputée
imputée
48,468 corpus weight
- inappropriés
inappropriés
48,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impulsivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impulsivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pyl.si.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impulsivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impulsivité is uncommon French at frequency #51,532 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.pyl.si.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère impulsif (d’un individu).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for impulsivité, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is impulsivité, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère impulsif (d’un individu).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impulsivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’impulsivité se définit donc simplement par ses effets : vos comportements sont prématurés, inappropriés et ne tiennent pas compte de conséquences qui s’avèrent souvent, après-coup, désagréables.
Tempérez votre impulsivité.
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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