emergency
\ɪˈmɝ.dʒən.si\
The verdict
“emergency” is uncommon French (frequency #58,581 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,581
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Urgence, crise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emergency · emergency · French
emergency · rank #58,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,581
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emplie
Nearest frequency peer: emplie (+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 « emergency »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efforçons
efforçons
41,424 corpus weight
- Egon
Egon
41,423 corpus weight
- emergency
emergency
41,420 corpus weight
- emplie
emplie
41,419 corpus weight
- encoches
encoches
41,418 corpus weight
- encombrent
encombrent
41,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emergency » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emergency |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɪˈmɝ.dʒən.si\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emergency » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emergency is uncommon French at frequency #58,581 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɪˈmɝ.dʒən.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Urgence, crise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for emergency in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is emergency, spelled E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Urgence, crise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how emergency appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hurry! This is an emergency.
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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