éméché
\e.me.ʃe\
The verdict
“éméché” is uncommon French (frequency #69,545 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,545
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans un état voisin de l'ivresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emeche · éméché · French
éméché · rank #69,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,545
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élytres
Nearest frequency peer: élytres (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « éméché »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élogieuse
élogieuse
30,459 corpus weight
- élytres
élytres
30,457 corpus weight
- éméché
éméché
30,456 corpus weight
- épatante
épatante
30,455 corpus weight
- épistolaires
épistolaires
30,454 corpus weight
- équilibriste
équilibriste
30,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éméché » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éméché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.me.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éméché » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éméché is uncommon French at frequency #69,545 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.me.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
éméché doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éméché, spelled É-M-É-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans un état voisin de l'ivresse.
- 2Qui dénote l'ivresse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éméché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un gendre un peu éméché, un autre gendre très sérieux ce soir. Il ne l'est pas toujours : Les deux filles, deux boulottes, qui bafouillent.
Il eut tôt fait d'en capter, car, ainsi que Kantor l'avait dit, les « donzelles » en question étaient éméchées, et bruyantes, ceci expliquant cela.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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