émail
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,739
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
émail is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matière fondante, composée de différents minéraux, laquelle, vitrifiée et plus ou moins opaque, peut recevoir différentes couleurs et être appliquée à l’aide du feu sur certains ouvrages d’or, d’ar... Pronounced \e.maj\. Often confused with emi and émis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.maj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for émail is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.maj\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,739 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for émail, with forms such as "email", "méail", and "éamil". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "emi", "émis", "exil", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is émail, spelled É-M-A-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matière fondante, composée de différents minéraux, laquelle, vitrifiée et plus ou moins opaque, peut recevoir différentes couleurs et être appliquée à l’aide du feu sur certains ouvrages d’or, d’argent, de cuivre, etc., pour les orner.
- 2Ouvrage fait de cette matière. En ce sens, on l’emploie surtout au pluriel.
- 3L’enduit vitreux dont on recouvre la porcelaine ou la faïence, et qui est souvent orné de diverses couleurs.
- 4Superficie ordinairement blanche et luisante qui couvre la partie osseuse des dents.
- 5La variété, la diversité des fleurs.
- 6Couleur qui n'est pas un métal dans les armoiries.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: email,méail,éamil,émaill,émali,émial,émmail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for émail
Misspelling Variants of "émail"
Frequency rank: #23,739 in French
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Nearby French words
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