emotional
\ˌemot͡si̯oˈnaːl\
The verdict
“emotional” is uncommon French (frequency #91,648 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,648
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Non comparable dans ce sens) Émotionnel : relatif aux émotions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emotional · emotional · French
emotional · rank #91,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,648
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emplies
Nearest frequency peer: emplies (+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 « emotional »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efforçaient
efforçaient
8,359 corpus weight
- embarquaient
embarquaient
8,357 corpus weight
- emotional
emotional
8,353 corpus weight
- emplies
emplies
8,352 corpus weight
- empoisonneur
empoisonneur
8,351 corpus weight
- empêtrée
empêtrée
8,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emotional » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emotional |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˌemot͡si̯oˈnaːl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emotional » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emotional is uncommon French at frequency #91,648 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˌemot͡si̯oˈnaːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for emotional, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is emotional, spelled E-M-O-T-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1(Non comparable dans ce sens) Émotionnel : relatif aux émotions.
- 2Sensible, sentimental, émotif.
- 3Émouvant, pour un événement, un spectacle, une œuvre, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emotional appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Kauf solcher Luxusautos ist eine rein emotionale Entscheidung.
Menschen reagieren unterschiedlich auf die verschiedenen Spielarten der Untreue. So haben Psychologen aus Bielefeld schon vor Jahren festgestellt, dass Frauen besonders eifersüchtig werden, wenn sie emotionale Untreue bei ihrem Partner vermuten.
Synonyms
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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