émergence

\e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\

/\e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“émergence” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,643
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le fait d’être émergent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-emergence · émergence · French

émergence · rank #7,643 · 14 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,643
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH éloigné

Nearest frequency peer: éloigné (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « émergence »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « émergence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

émergence vs émergent
78% similar
émergence vs émergents
78% similar
émergence vs émergente
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for émergence
PropertyValue
Headwordémergence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,643
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émergence »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.émergencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « éloigné » (#7,642), « économiser » (#7,640), « aires » (#7,646). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émergence » est au #7,643. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around émergence (IPA \e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,643 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for émergence, with forms such as "emergence", "méergence", and "éemrgence". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "émergent", "émergents", "émergente", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is émergence, spelled É-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le fait d’être émergent.
  2. 2
    Apparition, naissance, en parlant de phénomènes, et non d’êtres vivants ou d’objets matériels.
  3. 3
    Apparition de caractéristiques nouvelles à un certain degré de complexité d’un système.
  4. 4
    Apparition d'eau sortant du sol, quelle que soit son origine.
  5. 5
    Sortie d’un jeune adulte de la cellule de couvain dans laquelle il s’est développé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how émergence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Point d’émergence, Point par lequel un rayon lumineux sort d’un milieu qu’il a traversé.
  2. Leurs souvenirs d’enfance se ressemblaient, comme étaient presque identiques les chemins qu’ils avaient suivis, leur lente émergence hors du milieu familial, les perspectives qu’ils semblaient s’être choisies.

This word in other languages

emergence(English)emergencia(Español)Emergenz(Deutsch)emergência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emergence
  • méergence
  • éemrgence
  • émegrence
  • émeregnce
  • émergecne
  • émergencce
  • émergenec
  • émergennce
  • émerggence
  • émergnece
  • émerrgence
  • émmergence
  • émregence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émergence - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

emergence1méergence2éemrgence2émegrence2émeregnce2émergecne2émergencce1émergenec2
Edit distance from "émergence"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "émergence"?
"émergence" is spelled É-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\.
What does "émergence" mean?
As a noun, "émergence" means: Le fait d’être émergent.
What words are commonly confused with "émergence"?
"émergence" is commonly confused with "émergent", "émergents", "émergente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "émergence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émergence" is \e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "émergence" come from?
"émergence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "émergence", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

alimenter#7,648autoriser#7,658renverser#7,619contraste#7,674

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

silencieux14 variantssauvegarde14 variantsressembler14 variantsproposées14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list