empiffrer
\ɑ̃.pi.fʁe\
The verdict
“empiffrer” is uncommon French (frequency #82,912 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,912
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire manger avec excès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empiffrer · empiffrer · French
empiffrer · rank #82,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,912
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empeste
Nearest frequency peer: empeste (-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 « empiffrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- emporteront
emporteront
17,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empiffrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empiffrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pi.fʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empiffrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empiffrer is uncommon French at frequency #82,912 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pi.fʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for empiffrer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is empiffrer, spelled E-M-P-I-F-F-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire manger avec excès.
- 2Manger avec excès et gloutonnerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empiffrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Empiffrer un enfant de confitures, de pâtisseries.
« C’est le regret de quitter ta Brignoline qui te talonne. — Ah ! ah ! — On veut s’empiffrer pour oublier… Monsieur veut peut-être l’argent pour lâcher sa femme et son fils et retourner chez sa maîtresse. » Mon père qui a demandé cinq malheureux francs ! Ce n’est pas avec cela !
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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