empêtrés

\ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe\

/\ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe\/ adj

The verdict

“empêtrés” is uncommon French (frequency #94,758 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,758
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de empêtré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-empetres · empêtrés · French

empêtrés · rank #94,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,758
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH empoisonnant

Nearest frequency peer: empoisonnant (-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 « empêtrés »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empêtrés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for empêtrés
PropertyValue
Headwordempêtrés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#94,758
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « empêtrés » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).empêtréstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « empoisonnant » (#94,757), « emploierait » (#94,756), « encyclopédistes » (#94,760). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « empêtrés » est au #94,758. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

empêtrés is uncommon French at frequency #94,758 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de empêtré.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for empêtrés, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is empêtrés, spelled E-M-P-Ê-T-R-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de empêtré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how empêtrés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La dernière vue que j’ai eue de lui a été un élan furieux qu’il a pris et où il a été arrêté par l’étreinte de Hindley, si bien que tous deux sont tombés sur le sol, empêtrés l’un dans l’autre.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empêtrés"?
"empêtrés" is spelled E-M-P-Ê-T-R-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe\.
What does "empêtrés" mean?
As an adjective, "empêtrés" means: Masculin pluriel de empêtré.
How do you pronounce "empêtrés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "empêtrés" is \ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "empêtrés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list