empoisonner
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,640
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
empoisonner is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire mourir ou essayer de faire mourir par le poison. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne\. Often confused with emprisonne and emprisonnés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empoisonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #25,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for empoisonner is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,640 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for empoisonner, with forms such as "emmpoisonner", "emopisonner", and "empiosonner". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "emprisonne", "emprisonnés", "emprisonner", 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 empoisonner, spelled E-M-P-O-I-S-O-N-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire mourir ou essayer de faire mourir par le poison.
- 2Infecter de poison.
- 3Faire mourir par une qualité vénéneuse, en parlant de certaines substances.
- 4Produire des émanations extrêmement infectes.
- 5Troubler ; altérer ; remplir d’amertume.
- 6Corrompre l’esprit et les mœurs.
- 7Rapporter une chose en y donnant un tour malin, défavorable, dangereux, contre l’intention de celui qui l’a dite.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmpoisonner,emopisonner,empiosonner,empoiosnner,empoisnoner,empoisonenr,empoisoner,empoisonnerr,empoisonnre,empoissonner,emposionner,emppoisonner,epmoisonner,mepoisonner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "empoisonner"
Frequency rank: #25,640 in French
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