n’importe quand
\nɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“n’importe quand” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À n’importe quel moment, à tout moment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-n-importe-quand · n’importe quand · French
n’importe quand · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | n’importe quand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \nɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « n’importe quand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
n’importe quand is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \nɛ̃.pɔʁ.tə.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
n’importe quand has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 n’importe quand, spelled N-’-I-M-P-O-R-T-E- -Q-U-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1À n’importe quel moment, à tout moment.
- 2De toute façon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how n’importe quand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nuire à tout prix, n’importe quand, à n’importe qui, et n’importe comment, était le devoir. (Victor Hugo, L’Homme qui rit, 1869)
Cette personne arrive toujours n’importe quand.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.