emoji
\e.mo.ʒi\
The verdict
“emoji” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,765. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,765
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émoticône ou pictogramme ayant un point de code unique, utilisé dans les messages électroniques, par exemple 🚃 (U+1F683 dans Unicode).
Corpus desk
Index FR-emoji · emoji · French
emoji · rank #41,765 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,765
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embauchent
Nearest frequency peer: embauchent (-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 « emoji »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- efficiente
efficiente
58,239 corpus weight
- ellipses
ellipses
58,238 corpus weight
- embauchent
embauchent
58,237 corpus weight
- emoji
emoji
58,236 corpus weight
- empathique
empathique
58,235 corpus weight
- encaissement
encaissement
58,234 corpus weight
What this shows « emoji » 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 | emoji |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.mo.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « emoji »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around emoji (IPA \e.mo.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,765 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Émoticône ou pictogramme ayant un point de code unique, utilisé dans les messages électroniques, par exemple 🚃 (U+1F683 dans Unicode).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for emoji, with forms such as "emjoi", "emmoji", and "emoij". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "empli", "émotif", "emojis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is emoji, spelled E-M-O-J-I.
Definition
- 1Émoticône ou pictogramme ayant un point de code unique, utilisé dans les messages électroniques, par exemple 🚃 (U+1F683 dans Unicode).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emoji appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces jours-ci, aux États-Unis, beaucoup de personnes s’interrogent sur le langage du nouveau président. Ils parlent de sa « pauvreté », de la « crudité » de ses prises de parole, de ses discours écrits à la manière de tweets : sujet adjectif hyperbole insulte emoji.
La lentille de mon ordiphone braqué sur elle peine à suivre ses exploits lumineux. J'envoie un petit film à mon fils, avec une bonne dizaine d’emojis en prime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emjoi
- emmoji
- emoij
- emojji
- eomji
- meoji
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of emoji - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "emoji", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).