empennage
\ɑ̃.pɛ.naʒ\
The verdict
“empennage” is uncommon French (frequency #93,729 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,729
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plan fixe qui assure la stabilité en tangage et en trajectoire (ou stabilité en lacet) d’un aérodyne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empennage · empennage · French
empennage · rank #93,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,729
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empanadas
Nearest frequency peer: empanadas (-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 « empennage »
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 « empennage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empennage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛ.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empennage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empennage is uncommon French at frequency #93,729 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɛ.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for empennage in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is empennage, spelled E-M-P-E-N-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Plan fixe qui assure la stabilité en tangage et en trajectoire (ou stabilité en lacet) d’un aérodyne.
- 2Ensemble de plusieurs plans fixes qui assurent une rotation stable à une flèche, obus ou autre projectile, afin de stabiliser sa trajectoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empennage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout semblablement, nous pouvons nous rendre compte de l’influence de l’inclinaison de l’empennage horizontal d’avant sur la valeur du couple aérodynamique.
L’empennage d’une flèche est composé la plupart du temps de 3 plumes.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).