emphysème
\ɑ̃.fi.zɛm\
The verdict
“emphysème” is uncommon French (frequency #61,498 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,498
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infiltration de gaz dans un tissu cellulaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emphyseme · emphysème · French
emphysème · rank #61,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,498
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ene
Nearest frequency peer: ene (+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 « emphysème »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emballées
emballées
38,506 corpus weight
- emboîte
emboîte
38,505 corpus weight
- emphysème
emphysème
38,503 corpus weight
- ene
ene
38,502 corpus weight
- enflée
enflée
38,501 corpus weight
- enfoncement
enfoncement
38,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emphysème » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emphysème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fi.zɛm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emphysème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emphysème is uncommon French at frequency #61,498 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fi.zɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for emphysème, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is emphysème, spelled E-M-P-H-Y-S-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Infiltration de gaz dans un tissu cellulaire.
- 2Infiltration de gaz dans un tissu cellulaire.
- 3Imbécile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emphysème appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut savoir que le repliement incorrect des protéines humaines cause des maladies dévastatrices comme l’alzheimer, le parkinson, la maladie de Huntington, l’emphysème et la fibrose kystique.
[…], le chirurgien m’annoncera que ma tache au poumon n’était pas un cancer, il aura coupé quand même à cause de l’emphysème. – Mais je m’en foutais, moi, de l’emphysème ! hurlerai-je. Je préfère un poumon en mauvais état que pas de poumon du tout ! Je suis chanteur ! Chanteur ! J’ai besoin de mes deux poumons !
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).