empirent
\ɑ̃.piʁ\
The verdict
“empirent” is uncommon French (frequency #73,124 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,124
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de empirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empirent · empirent · French
empirent · rank #73,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,124
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emphatique
Nearest frequency peer: emphatique (-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 « empirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- either
either
26,881 corpus weight
- emphatique
emphatique
26,878 corpus weight
- empirent
empirent
26,877 corpus weight
- enchantemen…
enchantements
26,876 corpus weight
- Ennio
Ennio
26,874 corpus weight
- enregistreu…
enregistreuse
26,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.piʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empirent is uncommon French at frequency #73,124 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.piʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for empirent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is empirent, spelled E-M-P-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de empirer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de empirer.
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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