émérites
\e.me.ʁit\
The verdict
“émérites” is uncommon French (frequency #73,668 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,668
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de émérite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emerites · émérites · French
émérites · rank #73,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élogieuses
Nearest frequency peer: élogieuses (-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 « émérites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éblouissant…
éblouissantes
26,337 corpus weight
- électoralem…
électoralement
26,335 corpus weight
- élogieuses
élogieuses
26,334 corpus weight
- émérites
émérites
26,333 corpus weight
- épiscopaux
épiscopaux
26,332 corpus weight
- Érik
Érik
26,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « émérites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émérites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.me.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « émérites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
émérites is uncommon French at frequency #73,668 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.me.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de émérite.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for émérites, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is émérites, spelled É-M-É-R-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de émérite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how émérites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces gaudissarts émérites se sont mesurés avec mille caprices par semaine, ils connaissent toutes les vibrations de la corde cachemire dans le cœur des femmes.
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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