émettrice

\e.me.tʁis\

/\e.me.tʁis\/ noun

The verdict

“émettrice” is uncommon French (frequency #56,374 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,374
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui émet un effet de commerce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-emettrice · émettrice · French

émettrice · rank #56,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,374
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH écroulent

Nearest frequency peer: écroulent (-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 « émettrice »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « émettrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for émettrice
PropertyValue
Headwordémettrice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.me.tʁis\
Letters9
Frequency rank#56,374
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « émettrice » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.émettricetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « écroulent » (#56,373), « éminentes » (#56,375), « écouterais » (#56,372). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émettrice » est au #56,374. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

émettrice is uncommon French at frequency #56,374 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.me.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for émettrice in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is émettrice, spelled É-M-E-T-T-R-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui émet un effet de commerce.
  2. 2
    Celle qui émet des valeurs de bourse ou de la monnaie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La Première Guerre mondiale est l’événement catalyseur pour la création de monnaie de nécessité : d’août 1914, première émission de coupures, à novembre 1922, dernière émission de jetons. Les institutions consulaires sont, durant cette période les principales émettrices.

This word in other languages

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 "émettrice"?
"émettrice" is spelled É-M-E-T-T-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.me.tʁis\.
What does "émettrice" mean?
As a noun, "émettrice" means: Celle qui émet un effet de commerce.
How do you pronounce "émettrice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émettrice" is \e.me.tʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list