impures
\ɛ̃.pyʁ\
The verdict
“impures” is uncommon French (frequency #62,356 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,356
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de impur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impures · impures · French
impures · rank #62,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imputées
Nearest frequency peer: imputées (+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 « impures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- idéaliser
idéaliser
37,648 corpus weight
- illégitimité
illégitimité
37,647 corpus weight
- impures
impures
37,645 corpus weight
- imputées
imputées
37,644 corpus weight
- IMs
IMs
37,643 corpus weight
- inanimés
inanimés
37,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impures is uncommon French at frequency #62,356 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.pyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de impur.".
impures doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is impures, spelled I-M-P-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de impur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sterhausen visite en détail les talus, il trigonométrise les pentes, il se hasarde à l’orient, il s’aventure à l’occident, il monte, il descend, se fraie des sentiers périlleux, grimpe sur les roches glissantes ; ici le temps a détaché des pierres et fait des cavernes ; là les assises, brisées par des mains impures et impuissantes, n’offrent pas trace pou…
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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