empressé
The verdict
“empressé” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,341
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’empresse, qui est zélé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empresse · empressé · French
empressé · rank #29,341 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,341
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emportera
Nearest frequency peer: emportera (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « empressé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dévoilant
dévoilant
70,664 corpus weight
- emmènent
emmènent
70,662 corpus weight
- emportera
emportera
70,661 corpus weight
- empressé
empressé
70,660 corpus weight
- encadrent
encadrent
70,659 corpus weight
- encadrées
encadrées
70,658 corpus weight
What this shows « empressé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empressé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « empressé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around empressé, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,341 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for empressé, with forms such as "emmpressé", "emperssé", and "emppressé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "express", "emprise", "expresse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is empressé, spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Qui s’empresse, qui est zélé.
- 2Qui cherche par beaucoup de prévenances à se faire bien voir d’une autre personne.
- 3Qui met une sorte de hâte, de précipitation à faire quelque chose.
- 4Qualifie un air, des manières, des actions, des sentiments, etc., qui montrent de l'empressement, de la sollicitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empressé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils étaient tous empressés autour de lui.
Adolphe pouvait d'ailleurs passer , au début, pour le modèle des amants, tendre, empressé, inquiet dans la juste mesure ; […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpressé
- emperssé
- emppressé
- empresse
- empresé
- empresés
- emprressé
- emprsesé
- emrpessé
- epmressé
- mepressé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empressé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "empressé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).