émiettement
\e.mjɛt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“émiettement” is uncommon French (frequency #82,605 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,605
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’émietter, de s’émietter, ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emiettement · émiettement · French
émiettement · rank #82,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,605
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émanaient
Nearest frequency peer: émanaient (-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 « émiettement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- électroacou…
électroacoustique
17,399 corpus weight
- électrophor…
électrophorèse
17,398 corpus weight
- émanaient
émanaient
17,397 corpus weight
- émiettement
émiettement
17,396 corpus weight
- épiphane
épiphane
17,395 corpus weight
- épousez
épousez
17,394 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « émiettement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émiettement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mjɛt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « émiettement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
émiettement is uncommon French at frequency #82,605 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.mjɛt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’émietter, de s’émietter, ou résultat de cette action.".
émiettement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is émiettement, spelled É-M-I-E-T-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’émietter, de s’émietter, ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how émiettement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant l’épandage, il est important de maintenir le régime de rotation de la prise de force, d’une part pour avoir un émiettement régulier et d’autre part, avec les épandeurs munis de hérissons verticaux et/ou de plateaux, pour que la largeur de travail soit constante.
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.
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