impunité
French, noun/ɛ̃.py.ni.te/
impunité is spelled I-M-P-U-N-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written French, the 11,366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impunité is a French feminine noun meaning “impunity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manque de punition, fait de n’être pas puni”.
What does impunité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineimpunity
en toute impunité
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manque de punition, fait de n’être pas puni.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of impunité
- impunités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impunité?
- /ɛ̃.py.ni.te/
- \ɛ̃.py.ni.te\
- [ɛ̃.py.ni.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to impunité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impunité in French?
impunité appears 4.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).