émigrer

/\e.mi.ɡʁe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,028

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

émigrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre. Pronounced \e.mi.ɡʁe\. Often confused with exiger and étirer.

Key facts for émigrer
PropertyValue
Headwordémigrer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.mi.ɡʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,028
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of émigrer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for émigrer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.mi.ɡʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,028 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for émigrer, with forms such as "emigrer", "méigrer", and "éimgrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is émigrer, spelled É-M-I-G-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre.
  2. 2
    Quitter la France durant la Convention, en parlant des aristocrates et de leurs affidés.
  3. 3
    Quitter périodiquement une région pour séjourner dans une autre.
  4. 4
    Migrer d'un lieu à un autre.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emigrer,méigrer,éimgrer,émgirer,émigerr,émiggrer,émigrerr,émigrre,émigrrer,émirger,émmigrer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for émigrer

Misspelling Variants of "émigrer"

emigrer7méigrer7éimgrer7émgirer7émigerr7émiggrer8émigrerr8émigrre7
Misspelling Variants of "émigrer"

Frequency rank: #28,028 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "émigrer"?
"émigrer" is spelled É-M-I-G-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mi.ɡʁe\.
What does "émigrer" mean?
As a verb, "émigrer" means: Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre.
What words are commonly confused with "émigrer"?
"émigrer" is commonly confused with "exiger", "étirer", "emparer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "émigrer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émigrer" 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 "émigrer" come from?
"émigrer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.