empanadas
\ɑ̃.pa.na.da\
The verdict
“empanadas” is uncommon French (frequency #93,728 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,728
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de empanada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empanadas · empanadas · French
empanadas · rank #93,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,728
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emmêler
Nearest frequency peer: emmêler (-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 « empanadas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embrigader
embrigader
6,275 corpus weight
- emmêler
emmêler
6,274 corpus weight
- empanadas
empanadas
6,273 corpus weight
- empennage
empennage
6,272 corpus weight
- encensoir
encensoir
6,271 corpus weight
- enchevêtrés
enchevêtrés
6,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empanadas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empanadas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pa.na.da\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empanadas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empanadas is uncommon French at frequency #93,728 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.pa.na.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de empanada.".
empanadas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 empanadas, spelled E-M-P-A-N-A-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de empanada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empanadas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ex-Top Chef, qui a ouvert l’an dernier Bazurto, un restaurant colombien à Paris (6ᵉ), et vient de sortir Recuerdame (éd. First), aime servir à table des empanadas, un ceviche ou encore des plats à base de triguisar.
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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