empreinte
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,081
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
empreinte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure empreinte, impression, marque obtenue par pression. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃t\. It ranks #6,081 in French word frequency. Often confused with emprunté and étreinte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empreinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for empreinte is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,081 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for empreinte, with forms such as "emmpreinte", "emperinte", and "emppreinte". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "emprunté", "étreinte", "empreints", 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 empreinte, spelled E-M-P-R-E-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figure empreinte, impression, marque obtenue par pression.
- 2Figure de plantes, d’insectes, de poissons, etc., qu’on trouve empreintes sur certaines pierres.
- 3Forme en creux à l'intérieur d'un moule qui permet d'obtenir une pièce.
- 4Trace laissée par un contact de la peau sur un objet.
- 5Marque distinctive et durable.
- 6Fixation du nouveau-né sur le premier objet qui se présente à lui.
- 7Résultat d'une fonction de hachage qui permet d’identifier la donnée initiale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmpreinte,emperinte,emppreinte,empreinet,empreinnte,empreintte,empreitne,emprenite,empriente,emprreinte,emrpeinte,epmreinte,mepreinte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "empreinte"
Frequency rank: #6,081 in French
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