emm
\ɑ̃m\
The verdict
“emm” is uncommon French (frequency #63,713 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,713
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation polie pour dire « emmerder », ou une de ses formes conjuguées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emm · emm · French
emm · rank #63,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,713
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eller
Nearest frequency peer: eller (-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 « emm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- egal
egal
36,292 corpus weight
- Elke
Elke
36,290 corpus weight
- eller
eller
36,289 corpus weight
- emm
emm
36,288 corpus weight
- empilées
empilées
36,285 corpus weight
- emprises
emprises
36,284 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃m\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emm is uncommon French at frequency #63,713 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃m\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation polie pour dire « emmerder », ou une de ses formes conjuguées.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for emm, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is emm, spelled E-M-M.
Definition
- 1Abréviation polie pour dire « emmerder », ou une de ses formes conjuguées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Allez dire à votre général que je suis un maquereau et que je l’emm…!
Elle dit encore, tout en vrac, que la vie est courte, qu’on n’est pas sur la terre pour s’emm…, que la mort, elle s’en fout…
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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