empaillé

adj

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The verdict

“empaillé” is uncommon French (frequency #79,273 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,273
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rembourré de paille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-empaille · empaillé · French

empaillé · rank #79,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,273
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH Emmeline

Nearest frequency peer: Emmeline (-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 « empaillé »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empaillé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for empaillé
PropertyValue
Headwordempaillé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#79,273
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « empaillé » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.empaillétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Emmeline » (#79,272), « EMF » (#79,271), « emplissent » (#79,275). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « empaillé » est au #79,273. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

empaillé is uncommon French at frequency #79,273 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for empaillé in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is empaillé, spelled E-M-P-A-I-L-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rembourré de paille.
  2. 2
    Défendu par de la paille.
  3. 3
    Figé, statique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un oiseau empaillé.
  2. On voyait des têtes proprement empaillées qu’on allait porter à la Sublime-Porte.

This word in other languages

stuffed(English)

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 "empaillé"?
"empaillé" is spelled E-M-P-A-I-L-L-É.
What does "empaillé" mean?
As an adjective, "empaillé" means: Rembourré de paille.
What language does "empaillé" come from?
"empaillé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Emmeline#79,272envoûter#79,283equality#79,285déférées#79,250

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list