émousser
\e.mu.se\
The verdict
“émousser” is uncommon French (frequency #99,793 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,793
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre mousse, moins tranchant, moins aigu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emousser · émousser · French
émousser · rank #99,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émettons
Nearest frequency peer: émettons (-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 « émousser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- écumant
écumant
212 corpus weight
- égyptologues
égyptologues
211 corpus weight
- élastomère
élastomère
210 corpus weight
- émettons
émettons
209 corpus weight
- émousser
émousser
208 corpus weight
- énervants
énervants
207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « émousser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émousser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.mu.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « émousser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
émousser is uncommon French at frequency #99,793 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.mu.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for émousser in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is émousser, spelled É-M-O-U-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre mousse, moins tranchant, moins aigu.
- 2Rendre moins sensible, moins vif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how émousser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en va de même pour les lames de votre tondeuse à gazon ! Les lames tournantes qui se trouvent sous votre tondeuse finissent avec le temps par s’émousser.
Dans ces instants […] il est difficile de résister aux vœux du cœur qui ont alors tant de magie ! alors le chagrin s'émousse, la joie enivre, et la douleur accable.
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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