empeste
\ɑ̃.pɛst\
The verdict
“empeste” is uncommon French (frequency #82,911 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,911
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de empester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empeste · empeste · French
empeste · rank #82,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,911
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emparées
Nearest frequency peer: emparées (-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 « empeste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Emanuele
Emanuele
17,093 corpus weight
- emboîtement
emboîtement
17,092 corpus weight
- emparées
emparées
17,091 corpus weight
- empeste
empeste
17,090 corpus weight
- empiffrer
empiffrer
17,089 corpus weight
- empoigné
empoigné
17,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empeste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empeste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empeste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empeste is uncommon French at frequency #82,911 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for empeste, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is empeste, spelled E-M-P-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de empester.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de empester.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de empester.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de empester.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de empester.
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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