emmener

/\ɑ̃.mə.ne\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,817

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

emmener is aFrenchverb. It means: Mener du lieu où l’on est vers un autre lieu ; utilisé plutôt en parlant de personnes ou d’objets capables de se déplacer, comme par exemple des véhicules. Pronounced \ɑ̃.mə.ne\. It ranks #6,817 in French word frequency. Often confused with emmenez and emmènes.

Key facts for emmener
PropertyValue
Headwordemmener
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.mə.ne\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,817
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for emmener is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.mə.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,817 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mener du lieu où l’on est vers un autre lieu ; utilisé plutôt en parlant de personnes ou d’objets capables de se déplacer, comme par exemple des véhicules.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for emmener, with forms such as "ememner", "emener", and "emmeenr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "emmenez", "emmènes", "emmerder", 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 emmener, spelled E-M-M-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mener du lieu où l’on est vers un autre lieu ; utilisé plutôt en parlant de personnes ou d’objets capables de se déplacer, comme par exemple des véhicules.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ememner,emener,emmeenr,emmenerr,emmenner,emmenre,emmneer,memener

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emmener

Misspelling Variants of "emmener"

ememner7emener6emmeenr7emmenerr8emmenner8emmenre7emmneer7memener7
Misspelling Variants of "emmener"

Frequency rank: #6,817 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emmener"?
"emmener" is spelled E-M-M-E-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.mə.ne\.
What does "emmener" mean?
As a verb, "emmener" means: Mener du lieu où l’on est vers un autre lieu ; utilisé plutôt en parlant de personnes ou d’objets capables de se déplacer, comme par exemple des véhicules.
What words are commonly confused with "emmener"?
"emmener" is commonly confused with "emmenez", "emmènes", "emmerder". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "emmener"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emmener" is \ɑ̃.mə.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "emmener" come from?
"emmener" 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.