empress
\ˈɛm.pɹəs\
The verdict
“empress” is uncommon French (frequency #76,532 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,532
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impératrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empress · empress · French
empress · rank #76,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,532
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emportaient
Nearest frequency peer: emportaient (-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 « empress »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emport
emport
23,471 corpus weight
- emportaient
emportaient
23,470 corpus weight
- empress
empress
23,469 corpus weight
- emprisonnem…
emprisonnements
23,468 corpus weight
- encombrantes
encombrantes
23,467 corpus weight
- encéphale
encéphale
23,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empress » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empress |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛm.pɹəs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empress » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empress is uncommon French at frequency #76,532 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛm.pɹəs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Impératrice.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empress, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is empress, spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Impératrice.
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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