impureté
French, noun/ɛ̃.pyʁ.te/
impureté is spelled I-M-P-U-R-E-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impureté is a French feminine noun meaning “impurity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qu’il y a dans une chose d’impur, de grossier et d’étranger, qui l’altère ou la gâte”.
What does impureté mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineimpurity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce qu’il y a dans une chose d’impur, de grossier et d’étranger, qui l’altère ou la gâte. 2. Souillure que l’on contracte en faisant certaines choses défendues par une règle religieuse. 3. Impudicité. 4. Élément ajouté en petite quantité à un semi-conducteur pour en modifier les caractéristiques.
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 impureté
- impuretés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impureté?
- /ɛ̃.pyʁ.te/
- \ɛ̃.pyʁ.te\
- [ɛ̃.pyʁ.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 impureté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impureté in French?
impureté appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).