émigrer
\e.mi.ɡʁe\
The verdict
“émigrer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,028. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,028
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emigrer · émigrer · French
émigrer · rank #28,028 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,028
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élues
Nearest frequency peer: élues (-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 « émigrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écu
écu
71,976 corpus weight
- égaliser
égaliser
71,975 corpus weight
- élues
élues
71,974 corpus weight
- émigrer
émigrer
71,973 corpus weight
- équitableme…
équitablement
71,972 corpus weight
- étirer
étirer
71,971 corpus weight
What this shows « émigrer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émigrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.mi.ɡʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émigrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around émigrer (IPA \e.mi.ɡʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,028 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for émigrer, with forms such as "emigrer", "méigrer", and "éimgrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "exiger", "étirer", "emparer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is émigrer, spelled É-M-I-G-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre.
- 2Quitter la France durant la Convention, en parlant des aristocrates et de leurs affidés.
- 3Quitter périodiquement une région pour séjourner dans une autre.
- 4Migrer d'un lieu à un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how émigrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut que la misère des Islandais soit bien grande pour les déterminer à émigrer. L’émigration islandaise a commencé en 1870, sous l’impulsion de M. Olafsson, journaliste radical et membre du parlement de Reykjavik.
Mon père se cache de son côté en attendant une occasion d'émigrer.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emigrer
- méigrer
- éimgrer
- émgirer
- émigerr
- émiggrer
- émigrerr
- émigrre
- émigrrer
- émirger
- émmigrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émigrer - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "émigrer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).