émigrer

\e.mi.ɡʁe\

/\e.mi.ɡʁe\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « émigrer » 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).

émigrer vs exiger
57% similar
émigrer vs étirer
71% similar
émigrer vs emparer
57% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émigrer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).émigrerse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « élues » (#28,027), « équitablement » (#28,029), « égaliser » (#28,026). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émigrer » est au #28,028. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

emigrer1méigrer2éimgrer2émgirer2émigerr2émiggrer1émigrerr1émigrre2
Edit distance from "émigrer"

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 "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?
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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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list