emploi
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#567
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
emploi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Usage qu’on fait de quelque chose. Pronounced \ɑ̃.plwa\. It ranks #567 in French word frequency. Often confused with emplois and employé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emploi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for emploi is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.plwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #567 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for emploi, with forms such as "emlpoi", "emmploi", and "emplio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "emplois", "employé", "emploie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 emploi, spelled E-M-P-L-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Usage qu’on fait de quelque chose.
- 2Collocation de certaines sommes d’argent ou de capitaux.
- 3Placement obligatoire des sommes revenant à des usufruitiers, à des mineurs, dans une succession. → voir remploi.
- 4Action d’employer une somme et d’en faire mention dans un compte, soit en dépense, soit en recette.
- 5Manière dont on emploie, dont on peut employer.
- 6Occupation, fonction d’une personne employée dans l'administration, l'agriculture, le commerce ou l’industrie.
- 7Catégorie de rôles pour lesquels un acteur peut être employé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emlpoi,emmploi,emplio,emplloi,empoli,empploi,epmloi,meploi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emploi
Misspelling Variants of "emploi"
Frequency rank: #567 in French
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