emme
\ɛm\
The verdict
“emme” is uncommon French (frequency #77,478 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,478
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom, dans les ouvrages de terrassements, des profils qui sont faits de distance en distance, soit en déblai ou tranchée, soit en remblai, pour déterminer la forme que l’on veut donner à une digue, ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-emme · emme · French
emme · rank #77,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,478
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emboutissage
Nearest frequency peer: emboutissage (-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 « emme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efe
efe
22,526 corpus weight
- embarrassent
embarrassent
22,525 corpus weight
- emboutissage
emboutissage
22,524 corpus weight
- emme
emme
22,523 corpus weight
- emplir
emplir
22,522 corpus weight
- emportement
emportement
22,521 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emme is uncommon French at frequency #77,478 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom, dans les ouvrages de terrassements, des profils qui sont faits de distance en distance, soit en déblai ou tranchée, soit en remblai, pour déterminer la forme que l’on veut donner à une digue, ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for emme, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 emme, spelled E-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Nom, dans les ouvrages de terrassements, des profils qui sont faits de distance en distance, soit en déblai ou tranchée, soit en remblai, pour déterminer la forme que l’on veut donner à une digue, à une chaussée, à un rempart. — (Louis-Nicolas Bescherelle)
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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