emporium
\ɑ̃.po.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“emporium” is uncommon French (frequency #97,926 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,926
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre commercial ; lieu ou place de marché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emporium · emporium · French
emporium · rank #97,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,926
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empirant
Nearest frequency peer: empirant (-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 « emporium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emmènerait
emmènerait
2,078 corpus weight
- empathiques
empathiques
2,077 corpus weight
- empirant
empirant
2,076 corpus weight
- emporium
emporium
2,075 corpus weight
- enchâssée
enchâssée
2,074 corpus weight
- endiablées
endiablées
2,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emporium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emporium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.po.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emporium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emporium is uncommon French at frequency #97,926 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.po.ʁjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
emporium doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is emporium, spelled E-M-P-O-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Centre commercial ; lieu ou place de marché.
- 2Centre commercial
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emporium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le site de la rue du Souvenir atteste l’existence d’un emporium. Situé à la frontière du monde romain (la cité romaine de Vienne est à moins de 30 km au sud), l’emporium faisait le pont entre les cultures romaines et gauloises et servait également de port de transbordement (le goulet d’étranglement de la Saône à Pierre-Scize interdisait la navigation).
Thônis était, avant la fondation d’Alexandrie, le grand et prospère emporium de l’Égypte sur la Méditerranée et contrôlait tout le commerce du royaume avec le monde grec.
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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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