émouvante

\e.mu.vɑ̃t\

/\e.mu.vɑ̃t\/ adj

The verdict

“émouvante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,215
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de émouvant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-emouvante · émouvante · French

émouvante · rank #21,215 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,215
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH émir

Nearest frequency peer: émir (-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 « émouvante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « émouvante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

émouvante vs épouvante
89% similar
émouvante vs émouvants
89% similar
émouvante vs éprouvante
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for émouvante
PropertyValue
Headwordémouvante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.mu.vɑ̃t\
Letters9
Frequency rank#21,215
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émouvante »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.émouvantese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « émir » (#21,214), « énoncés » (#21,216), « émigrés » (#21,213). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émouvante » est au #21,215. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around émouvante (IPA \e.mu.vɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,215 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de émouvant.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for émouvante, with forms such as "emouvante", "méouvante", and "émmouvante". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "épouvante", "émouvants", "éprouvante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is émouvante, spelled É-M-O-U-V-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de émouvant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how émouvante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Après Robert Mitchum est mort en 2000 (coréalisé avec Fred Kihn), road-movie absurde dans la veine d’Aki Kaurismäki ou de Jim Jarmusch, le très beau documentaire Swagger (2016) centré sur des gamins d’Aulnay-sous-Bois, et Poissonsexe (2019), rom com mâtinée de film d’anticipation le revoilà avec Normale, l’émouvante histoire d’une collégienne à l’imaginat…
  2. Pour Laurent Lafitte, il y a un mythe Tapie parce que sa trajectoire est émouvante.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emouvante
  • méouvante
  • émmouvante
  • émouavnte
  • émouvanet
  • émouvannte
  • émouvantte
  • émouvatne
  • émouvnate
  • émouvvante
  • émovuante
  • émuovante
  • éomuvante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émouvante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

emouvante1méouvante2émmouvante1émouavnte2émouvanet2émouvannte1émouvantte1émouvatne2
Edit distance from "émouvante"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "émouvante"?
"émouvante" is spelled É-M-O-U-V-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mu.vɑ̃t\.
What does "émouvante" mean?
As an adjective, "émouvante" means: Féminin singulier de émouvant.
What words are commonly confused with "émouvante"?
"émouvante" is commonly confused with "épouvante", "émouvants", "éprouvante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "émouvante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émouvante" is \e.mu.vɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "émouvante" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "émouvante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list