emplâtre

/\ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

emplâtre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Médicament solide et glutineux, qui se ramollit par la chaleur et qu'on applique sur telle ou telle partie du corps, après l’avoir étendu sur de la toile. Pronounced \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\.

Key facts for emplâtre
PropertyValue
Headwordemplâtre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

emplâtre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for emplâtre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for emplâtre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is emplâtre, spelled E-M-P-L-Â-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Médicament solide et glutineux, qui se ramollit par la chaleur et qu'on applique sur telle ou telle partie du corps, après l’avoir étendu sur de la toile.
  2. 2
    Maçonnerie appliquée à un mur pour le consolider.
  3. 3
    Personne qui n’a aucune vigueur d’esprit, qui est incapable d’agir comme il convient, qui ne fait qu’apporter de l’embarras dans les affaires dont elle se mêle.
  4. 4
    Coup porté en se battant.
  5. 5
    Englumen utilisé pour accélérer la cicatrisation des arbres.
  6. 6
    Pièce que l'on colle sur une chambre à air pour boucher un trou, rustine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emplâtre"?
"emplâtre" is spelled E-M-P-L-Â-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\.
What does "emplâtre" mean?
As a noun, "emplâtre" means: Médicament solide et glutineux, qui se ramollit par la chaleur et qu'on applique sur telle ou telle partie du corps, après l’avoir étendu sur de la toile.
How do you pronounce "emplâtre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emplâtre" is \ɑ̃.plɑtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "emplâtre" come from?
"emplâtre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.