empoigner
\ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe\
The verdict
“empoigner” is uncommon French (frequency #78,382 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,382
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre et serrer avec le poing.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empoigner · empoigner · French
empoigner · rank #78,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,382
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empêchèrent
Nearest frequency peer: empêchèrent (+2 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 « empoigner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efforcée
efforcée
21,624 corpus weight
- empoigner
empoigner
21,619 corpus weight
- empêchèrent
empêchèrent
21,617 corpus weight
- empêchées
empêchées
21,616 corpus weight
- encartés
encartés
21,615 corpus weight
- enchantent
enchantent
21,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empoigner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empoigner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empoigner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empoigner is uncommon French at frequency #78,382 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for empoigner, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is empoigner, spelled E-M-P-O-I-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prendre et serrer avec le poing.
- 2Saisir quelqu’un pour l’arrêter ou l’expulser d’un endroit.
- 3Attaquer ; quereller ; injurier.
- 4Saisir fortement, émouvoir profondément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empoigner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au même instant, vous savez comme cela se pratique, j’empoignai la corde, je sautai sur ses épaules, et han! han! tout fut dit.
Je vis assis, tel qu’un ange aux mains d'un barbier, Empoignant une chope à fortes cannelures, L’hypogastre et le col cambrés, une Gambier Aux dents, sous l’air gonflé d’impalpables voilures.
This word in other languages
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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