empiriques
\ɑ̃.pi.ʁik\
The verdict
“empiriques” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,948
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de empirique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empiriques · empiriques · French
empiriques · rank #31,948 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,948
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Emil
Nearest frequency peer: Emil (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « empiriques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Edmund
Edmund
68,056 corpus weight
- embrancheme…
embranchement
68,055 corpus weight
- Emil
Emil
68,054 corpus weight
- empiriques
empiriques
68,053 corpus weight
- empêchement
empêchement
68,052 corpus weight
- encyclopédi…
encyclopédique
68,050 corpus weight
What this shows « empiriques » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empiriques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pi.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « empiriques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around empiriques (IPA \ɑ̃.pi.ʁik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,948 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de empirique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for empiriques, with forms such as "emipriques", "emmpiriques", and "empiirques". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "empirique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is empiriques, spelled E-M-P-I-R-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de empirique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empiriques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chercheur espère toujours secrètement (sans vraiment y croire complètement) que ses activités de recherche (en terme d’investigations empiriques (et les interactions avec les acteurs qui vont avec) d’analyses, de descriptions, d’explications, sur un mode oral ou écrit) pourront contribuer à désaffaiblir les acteurs, à réduire leurs situations problémat…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emipriques
- emmpiriques
- empiirques
- empiriqeus
- empiriqques
- empiriquess
- empiriquse
- empiriuqes
- empirqiues
- empirriques
- emppiriques
- empriiques
- epmiriques
- mepiriques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empiriques - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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