emphatique
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#73,123
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
emphatique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie ce qui donne de l’emphase, ce qui exaspère l’expression d’un sentiment, d’une idée dans l’expression écrite ou orale. Pronounced \ɑ̃.fa.tik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emphatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fa.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for emphatique is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fa.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #73,123 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for emphatique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 emphatique, spelled E-M-P-H-A-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie ce qui donne de l’emphase, ce qui exaspère l’expression d’un sentiment, d’une idée dans l’expression écrite ou orale.
- 2Qualifie ce qui est enflé et ampoulé dans l’expression écrite ou orale.
- 3Qualifie un discours prononcé avec exagération prétentieuse.
- 4Qui met l’accent sur un point particulier de la phrase.
- 5Qualifie une consonne éjective qui est également vélaire ou pharyngale, dans les langues sémitiques comme l’arabe.
- 6Exagéré.
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Frequency rank: #73,123 in French
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