empressement

/\ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,586

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

empressement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de s’empresser. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃\. Often confused with expressément.

Key facts for empressement
PropertyValue
Headwordempressement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#30,586
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for empressement is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,586 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action de s’empresser.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for empressement, with forms such as "emmpressement", "emperssement", and "emppressement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "expressément", 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 empressement, spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de s’empresser.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emmpressement,emperssement,emppressement,empresement,empresesment,empresseemnt,empressemennt,empressementt,empressemetn,empressemment,empressemnet,empressmeent,emprressement,emprsesement,emrpessement,epmressement,mepressement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empressement

Misspelling Variants of "empressement"

emmpressement13emperssement12emppressement13empresement11empresesment12empresseemnt12empressemennt13empressementt13
Misspelling Variants of "empressement"

Frequency rank: #30,586 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empressement"?
"empressement" is spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃\.
What does "empressement" mean?
As a noun, "empressement" means: Action de s’empresser.
What words are commonly confused with "empressement"?
"empressement" is commonly confused with "expressément". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "empressement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "empressement" is \ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "empressement" come from?
"empressement" 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.