emmerder
\ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de\
The verdict
“emmerder” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,616
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souiller d’excréments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emmerder · emmerder · French
emmerder · rank #15,616 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,616
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enferme
Nearest frequency peer: enferme (+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 « emmerder »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déluge
déluge
84,390 corpus weight
- dépouille
dépouille
84,389 corpus weight
- détenue
détenue
84,388 corpus weight
- emmerder
emmerder
84,385 corpus weight
- enferme
enferme
84,384 corpus weight
- ennemies
ennemies
84,381 corpus weight
What this shows « emmerder » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emmerder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « emmerder »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around emmerder (IPA \ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,616 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for emmerder, with forms such as "ememrder", "emerder", and "emmedrer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "emmerdes", "emmener", "émerger", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is emmerder, spelled E-M-M-E-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Souiller d’excréments.
- 2Manifester son mépris et parfois sa supériorité.
- 3Ennuyer ; importuner.
- 4S’ennuyer.
- 5Peiner, se compliquer la vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emmerder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cheval en question se tenait à l’écart des autres, qui semblaient s’en méfier, et présentait une teinte grisâtre jaunâtre, manifestement mensongère. — L’pauv’ bougre ! dit Tulacque. — Tu vois, les bourins, dit Paradis, non seulement on les fait tuer, mais on les emmerde. — C’est pour leur bien, que veux-tu !
Elle articulait au hasard, d’une voix sans suite, sans raison, pour la joie de lancer les injures dans le désordre et l’incohérence où elle les avait mâchées : « Ne me touche pas ! Je t’emmerde ! Je t’emmerde ! Et je foutrai le camp cette nuit ! Je t’emmerde, sale vache ! Sale grue ! Sale gousse !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ememrder
- emerder
- emmedrer
- emmerdder
- emmerderr
- emmerdre
- emmeredr
- emmerrder
- emmreder
- memerder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of emmerder - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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