empathie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,585
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
empathie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Capacité de comprendre, de ressentir les sentiments ou de se mettre à la place d’une autre personne. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pa.ti\. Often confused with empathique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empathie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pa.ti\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for empathie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pa.ti\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,585 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for empathie, with forms such as "emapthie", "emmpathie", and "empahtie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "empathique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is empathie, spelled E-M-P-A-T-H-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capacité de comprendre, de ressentir les sentiments ou de se mettre à la place d’une autre personne.
- 2Dans la tradition phénoménologique, appréhension immédiate de l’affectivité d’autrui.
- 3Dans les sciences humaines, attitude envers autrui caractérisée par un effort de compréhension intellectuelle de l’autre, excluant tout entraînement affectif personnel (sympathie, antipathie) et tout jugement moral (caractéristique du sens historique, pénétration de cultures étrangères, techniques d’entretien, psychiatrie, etc.).
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Also misspelled as: emapthie,emmpathie,empahtie,empathei,empathhie,empatihe,empatthie,emppathie,emptahie,epmathie,mepathie
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Misspelling Variants of "empathie"
Frequency rank: #13,585 in French
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