emporter

/\ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,340

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

emporter is aFrenchverb. It means: Porter hors d’un lieu. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. It ranks #5,340 in French word frequency. Often confused with exporte and exporter.

Key facts for emporter
PropertyValue
Headwordemporter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,340
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of emporter in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for emporter is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,340 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for emporter, with forms such as "emmporter", "emoprter", and "emporetr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "exporte", "exporter", "escorter", 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 emporter, spelled E-M-P-O-R-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Porter hors d’un lieu.
  2. 2
    Entraîner, arracher, enlever ou emmener avec effort, avec rapidité ou avec violence.
  3. 3
    Causer la mort rapidement, en parlant d’une maladie.
  4. 4
    Détruire ; faire disparaître.
  5. 5
    Guérir.
  6. 6
    Tirer l’âme de sa situation ordinaire, jeter dans quelque excès, état-limite ou manifestation paroxystique, en parlant des passions, des émotions ou des sensations.
  7. 7
    Gagner ; obtenir.
  8. 8
    Obtenir par une sorte de violence.
  9. 9
    Conquérir, se rendre maître, en peu de temps.
  10. 10
    Entraîner par une suite nécessaire ; comprendre ; impliquer.
  11. 11
    Se livrer à un excès d’orgueil, d’audace, et en général à un sentiment immodéré.
  12. 12
    Se fâcher violemment, s’abandonner à la colère.
  13. 13
    Ne pouvoir être retenu par celui qui le monte ou qui le conduit, en parlant d’un cheval.
  14. 14
    Se dit d'un cheval de trot qui se montre fautif dans ses allures et est par suite susceptible d'être disqualifié.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emmporter,emoprter,emporetr,emporrter,emporterr,emportre,emportter,empotrer,empporter,emproter,epmorter,meporter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emporter

Misspelling Variants of "emporter"

emmporter9emoprter8emporetr8emporrter9emporterr9emportre8emportter9empotrer8
Misspelling Variants of "emporter"

Frequency rank: #5,340 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emporter"?
"emporter" is spelled E-M-P-O-R-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\.
What does "emporter" mean?
As a verb, "emporter" means: Porter hors d’un lieu.
What words are commonly confused with "emporter"?
"emporter" is commonly confused with "exporte", "exporter", "escorter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "emporter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emporter" is \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "emporter" come from?
"emporter" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.