employa
\ɑ̃.plwa.ja\
The verdict
“employa” is uncommon French (frequency #53,927 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,927
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de employer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-employa · employa · French
employa · rank #53,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,927
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embryonnaires
Nearest frequency peer: embryonnaires (-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 « employa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ecce
ecce
46,077 corpus weight
- embryonnair…
embryonnaires
46,075 corpus weight
- employa
employa
46,074 corpus weight
- empruntait
empruntait
46,073 corpus weight
- empêches
empêches
46,072 corpus weight
- enrobés
enrobés
46,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « employa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | employa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plwa.ja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « employa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
employa is uncommon French at frequency #53,927 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.plwa.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de employer.".
employa has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is employa, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de employer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how employa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les remettre à flot, il employa le salvateur moyen à la disposition des politiques : il augmenta les impôts.
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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