empressée
\ɑ̃.pʁɛ.se\
The verdict
“empressée” is uncommon French (frequency #50,195 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,195
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de empressé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empressee · empressée · French
empressée · rank #50,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,195
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empêcheront
Nearest frequency peer: empêcheront (+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 « empressée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empattement
empattement
49,809 corpus weight
- empiriqueme…
empiriquement
49,808 corpus weight
- empressée
empressée
49,806 corpus weight
- empêcheront
empêcheront
49,805 corpus weight
- encaissent
encaissent
49,804 corpus weight
- encart
encart
49,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empressée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empressée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empressée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empressée is uncommon French at frequency #50,195 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.pʁɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de empressé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for empressée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 empressée, spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de empressé.
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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