empereur
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,364
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
empereur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Souverain d’un empire. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁœʁ\. It ranks #2,364 in French word frequency. Often confused with espérer and empirer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empereur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for empereur is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pʁœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,364 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 empereur, with forms such as "emepreur", "emmpereur", and "empeerur". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "espérer", "empirer", "empereurs", and more, 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 empereur, spelled E-M-P-E-R-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Souverain d’un empire.
- 2Synonyme de trachichthyidé (poisson).
- 3Synonyme de hoplostèthe (poisson).
- 4Synonyme de béryx long (poisson).
- 5Quatrième atout du tarot de Marseille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emepreur,emmpereur,empeerur,empereru,empereurr,emperreur,emperuer,emppereur,empreeur,epmereur,mepereur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empereur
Misspelling Variants of "empereur"
Frequency rank: #2,364 in French
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