empile
\ɑ̃.pil\
The verdict
“empile” is uncommon French (frequency #64,417 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,417
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fil auquel on attache l’hameçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empile · empile · French
empile · rank #64,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,417
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empaler
Nearest frequency peer: empaler (-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 « empile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embarquait
embarquait
35,588 corpus weight
- empaler
empaler
35,585 corpus weight
- empile
empile
35,584 corpus weight
- enclavée
enclavée
35,583 corpus weight
- encombrées
encombrées
35,582 corpus weight
- endoscopie
endoscopie
35,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empile is uncommon French at frequency #64,417 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.pil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fil auquel on attache l’hameçon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for empile, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 empile, spelled E-M-P-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Fil auquel on attache l’hameçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il va être question plus loin de la pêche aux palangres, qui consiste à immerger une ligne de grande longueur, sur laquelle sont fixés de nombreux hameçons, par l’intermédiaire d’empiles et dont les extrémités sont maintenues à la surface au moyen de flotteurs.
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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