empattement
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,192
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
empattement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui sert de patte, de pied à quelque chose. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pat.mɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empattement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pat.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for empattement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pat.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,192 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for empattement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 empattement, spelled E-M-P-A-T-T-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert de patte, de pied à quelque chose.
- 2Pièces de bois ou de métal qui servent de base à une grue.
- 3Maçonnerie en saillie à la base d’un mur, d’une construction.
- 4Traits plus ou moins fins des extrémités du jambage des lettres d’une police d’écriture.
- 5Distance entre l’essieu avant et l’essieu arrière d’un véhicule.
- 6Base élargie d'une branche à l'endroit où elle se sépare du tronc, base élargie du tronc d'un arbre au niveau du sol.
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Frequency rank: #50,192 in French
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