empaumer
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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empaumer is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre dans la paume de la main. Pronounced \ɑ̃.po.me\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empaumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.po.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for empaumer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.po.me\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for empaumer 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 empaumer, spelled E-M-P-A-U-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre dans la paume de la main.
- 2Recevoir avec adresse une balle ou un éteuf en plein dans le milieu de la paume de la main, de la raquette ou du battoir et la pousser fortement.
- 3Rencontrer la piste, la suivre adroitement et l’annoncer par des aboiements, en parlant des chiens.
- 4Se rendre maître habilement de l’esprit d’une personne pour lui faire faire tout ce qu’on veut.
- 5S'étouffer
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