émerger
\e.mɛʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“émerger” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,393
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer d’un milieu inférieur à un milieu supérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emerger · émerger · French
émerger · rank #14,393 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,393
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éduquer
Nearest frequency peer: éduquer (-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 « émerger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écrivit
écrivit
85,611 corpus weight
- éditoriale
éditoriale
85,610 corpus weight
- éduquer
éduquer
85,609 corpus weight
- émerger
émerger
85,608 corpus weight
- équiper
équiper
85,607 corpus weight
- éteinte
éteinte
85,606 corpus weight
What this shows « émerger » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émerger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.mɛʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émerger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around émerger (IPA \e.mɛʁ.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,393 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for émerger, with forms such as "emerger", "méerger", and "éemrger". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "exercer", "énerver", "emmerder", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is émerger, spelled É-M-E-R-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer d’un milieu inférieur à un milieu supérieur.
- 2Sortir de l'eau.
- 3Sortir de l'inconnu, du néant.
- 4Sortir d’un milieu obscur pour entrer dans un milieu lumineux.
- 5Se réveiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how émerger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par dessus le corsage à fronces, un caraco d’orléans, costume complété par un bonnet ruché d'où émergeait une figure maigre.
A droite du piano, le violoncelliste émergeait de la fosse, la tête appuyée contre la crosse de son instrument dont il pinçait les cordes en regardant fixement devant lui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emerger
- méerger
- éemrger
- émegrer
- émeregr
- émergerr
- émergger
- émergre
- émerrger
- émmerger
- émreger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émerger - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).