émettait
\e.mɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“émettait” is uncommon French (frequency #53,711 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,711
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de émettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emettait · émettait · French
émettait · rank #53,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,711
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élitisme
Nearest frequency peer: élitisme (-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 « émettait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- électrolytes
électrolytes
46,293 corpus weight
- élitisme
élitisme
46,291 corpus weight
- émettait
émettait
46,290 corpus weight
- émotifs
émotifs
46,289 corpus weight
- éparpiller
éparpiller
46,288 corpus weight
- épurées
épurées
46,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « émettait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émettait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.mɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « émettait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
émettait is uncommon French at frequency #53,711 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.mɛ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de émettre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for émettait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 émettait, spelled É-M-E-T-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de émettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how émettait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En janvier 2022, le fondateur de la blockchain Ethereum Vitalik Buterin publiait un article de blog dans lequel il émettait l’idée de rendre certains soulbound, soit, littéralement, « liés à l’âme » de leurs détenteurs, non vendables ni transférables.
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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