émois
\e.mwa\
The verdict
“émois” is uncommon French (frequency #61,245 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,245
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de émoi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emois · émois · French
émois · rank #61,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,245
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émeuvent
Nearest frequency peer: émeuvent (-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 « émois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élévateurs
élévateurs
38,759 corpus weight
- émeuvent
émeuvent
38,757 corpus weight
- émois
émois
38,756 corpus weight
- épancher
épancher
38,755 corpus weight
- éphémérides
éphémérides
38,754 corpus weight
- éradiquée
éradiquée
38,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « émois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « émois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
émois is uncommon French at frequency #61,245 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.mwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de émoi.".
émois has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 émois, spelled É-M-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de émoi.
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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