à l’emporte-pièce
\a l‿ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.pjɛs\
The verdict
“à l’emporte-pièce” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Obtenu à l'aide d'un emporte-pièce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à l’emporte-pièce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a l‿ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.pjɛs\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “à l’emporte-pièce” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à l’emporte-pièce is 17 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a l‿ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.pjɛs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for à l’emporte-pièce, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is à l’emporte-pièce, spelled À- -L-’-E-M-P-O-R-T-E---P-I-È-C-E.
Definition
- 1Obtenu à l'aide d'un emporte-pièce.
- 2Hâtivement, globalement, sans nuances, avec âpreté.
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.
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Using “à l’emporte-pièce”
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- The one correct French spelling is À- -L-’-E-M-P-O-R-T-E---P-I-È-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.