émigré

\e.mi.ɡʁe\

/\e.mi.ɡʁe\/ adj

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The verdict

“émigré” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,212
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a quitté son pays.

Corpus desk

Index FR-emigre · émigré · French

émigré · rank #21,212 · 9 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,212
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH éducateurs

Nearest frequency peer: éducateurs (-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 « émigré »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « émigré » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

émigré vs émir
67% similar
émigré vs exige
33% similar
émigré vs Émile
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for émigré
PropertyValue
Headwordémigré
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.mi.ɡʁe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#21,212
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émigré »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.émigrése place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « éducateurs » (#21,211), « émigrés » (#21,213), « écartée » (#21,210). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émigré » est au #21,212. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around émigré (IPA \e.mi.ɡʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,212 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a quitté son pays.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for émigré, with forms such as "emigre", "méigré", and "éimgré". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "émir", "exige", "Émile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is émigré, spelled É-M-I-G-R-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a quitté son pays.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Comment parler des odyssées souvent anonymes de ces Chinois émigrés en Asie du Sud, de Java aux Philippines, tant ils furent nombreux et précoces ? Dès le début du XVᵉ siècle, la flotte de Zheng He en rencontre dans les îles de Java, de Sumatra et ailleurs.

This word in other languages

Auswanderer(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emigre
  • méigré
  • éimgré
  • émgiré
  • émiggré
  • émigrré
  • émigér
  • émirgé
  • émmigré

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émigré - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

emigre2méigré2éimgré2émgiré2émiggré1émigrré1émigér2émirgé2
Edit distance from "émigré"

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 "émigré"?
"émigré" is spelled É-M-I-G-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mi.ɡʁe\.
What does "émigré" mean?
As an adjective, "émigré" means: Qui a quitté son pays.
What words are commonly confused with "émigré"?
"émigré" is commonly confused with "émir", "exige", "Émile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "émigré"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émigré" is \e.mi.ɡʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "émigré" come from?
"émigré" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Acadie#21,220veuves#21,201ubuntu#21,198aligne#21,230

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list