emmerdeur
\ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“emmerdeur” is uncommon French (frequency #53,308 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,308
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne emmerdante, c'est-à-dire qui importune, qui ennuie, qui énerve les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emmerdeur · emmerdeur · French
emmerdeur · rank #53,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,308
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emmagasiner
Nearest frequency peer: emmagasiner (-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 « emmerdeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eltsine
Eltsine
46,696 corpus weight
- embarquant
embarquant
46,695 corpus weight
- emmagasiner
emmagasiner
46,694 corpus weight
- emmerdeur
emmerdeur
46,693 corpus weight
- encline
encline
46,691 corpus weight
- encouru
encouru
46,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emmerdeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emmerdeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emmerdeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emmerdeur is uncommon French at frequency #53,308 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne emmerdante, c'est-à-dire qui importune, qui ennuie, qui énerve les autres.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for emmerdeur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 emmerdeur, spelled E-M-M-E-R-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne emmerdante, c'est-à-dire qui importune, qui ennuie, qui énerve les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emmerdeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dire qu’il suffit de mettre un gigot au feu pour voir s’amener les emmerdeurs !
Au retour des dernières épreuves avant BAT, j'ai vu qu'elle avait encore rétabli des pétouilles que j'avais pourtant annulées lors des premières navettes, mais j'ai quand même donné mon imprimatur pour ne pas passer pour un emmerdeur […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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