impur
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,648
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
impur is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas pur. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pyʁ\. Often confused with input and impute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pyʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for impur is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,648 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for impur, with forms such as "immpur", "imppur", and "impru". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "input", "impute", "imputer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is impur, spelled I-M-P-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas pur.
- 2Qui a une impureté religieuse.
- 3Qualifie, selon certaines règles religieuses, une femme lors de ses menstruations.
- 4Qui a une impureté morale.
- 5Les esprits impurs, les démons.
- 6Il se dit aussi des choses.
- 7Être né d’un sang impur, être né de parents malhonnêtes, déshonorés.
- 8On dit dans le même sens : une race impure.
- 9Impudique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpur,imppur,impru,impurr,imupr,ipmur,mipur
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Misspelling Variants of "impur"
Frequency rank: #30,648 in French
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