émotionner
\e.mo.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“émotionner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causer une vive émotion, émouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emotionner · émotionner · French
émotionner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émotionner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.mo.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « émotionner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
émotionner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \e.mo.sjɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Causer une vive émotion, émouvoir.".
émotionner has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is émotionner, spelled É-M-O-T-I-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Causer une vive émotion, émouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how émotionner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Émotionner est assurément un vilain mot. Ne l'admettons pas dans le Dictionnaire, dira-t-on, ne lui donnons point le droit de cité ; émouvoir suffit. - À quoi je réponds: Non, émouvoir ne suffit pas ; car il est des cas où j'emploierai émotionner et où j'en aurai besoin. Et, par exemple, si je veux définir la manière de tel historien moderne qui, à force…
C'est une enfant qui s'émotionne bien facilement.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.