Which to use
“imminent” and “imminente” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,776
- “imminent” frequency rank
- #14,700
- “imminente” frequency rank
- 33476
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | imminent | imminente |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui menace de survenir, en parlant d’un danger, d’un événement redouté. | Féminin singulier de imminent. |
Where the eye mixes imminent and imminente
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. imminent runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCC) against imminente's 9 (VCCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between imminent and imminente
A purely visual mix-up. imminent (\i.mi.nɑ̃\) and imminente (\i.mi.nɑ̃t\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “imminent” sits inside “imminente”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
imminent is recorded at frequency rank #18,776, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.mi.nɑ̃\. imminente is at rank #14,700, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.mi.nɑ̃t\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 33476, this pair ranks #290,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of imminent vs imminente
Shared letters: eimnt. Private to "imminent": -. Private to "imminente": -.
"imminent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC · "imminente" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "imminent" and "imminente" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "imminent" or "imminente" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "imminent" and "imminente" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "imminent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "imminente" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #290,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "imminent" and "imminente" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "imitent vs imminent". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #290,379 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.