Emmeline
\em.lin\
The verdict
“Emmeline” is uncommon French (frequency #79,272 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,272
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emmeline · Emmeline · French
Emmeline · rank #79,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,272
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH EMF
Nearest frequency peer: EMF (-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 « Emmeline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ellipsoïde
ellipsoïde
20,733 corpus weight
- EMF
EMF
20,730 corpus weight
- Emmeline
Emmeline
20,729 corpus weight
- empaillé
empaillé
20,728 corpus weight
- emplissent
emplissent
20,726 corpus weight
- encorbellem…
encorbellement
20,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Emmeline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Emmeline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \em.lin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Emmeline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Emmeline is uncommon French at frequency #79,272 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \em.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Emmeline has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Emmeline, spelled E-M-M-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Emmeline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du couple Forel, l’histoire n’avait retenu que l’époux, Alexis (1852-1922), et relégué Emmeline (1860-1957) dans l’ombre. Ces Vaudois, artistes et collectionneurs passionnés par l’art médiéval, ont pourtant créé ensemble le musée Alexis Forel, à Morges.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).