emprise
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,997
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
emprise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de prendre des terrains par expropriation. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁiz\. It ranks #8,997 in French word frequency. Often confused with épris and épuisé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emprise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for emprise is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pʁiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,997 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for emprise, with forms such as "emmprise", "empirse", and "empprise". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "épris", "épuisé", "éprise", 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 emprise, spelled E-M-P-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de prendre des terrains par expropriation.
- 2Occupation d’une région, d’un territoire.
- 3Projection d'une construction sur une surface.
- 4Terrain utilisé par un moyen de transport, comme une route, une voie ferrée, une piste cyclable, et l’ensemble des espaces nécessaires à son entretien ou à son exploitation.
- 5Envahissement ; mainmise.
- 6Influence ou domination exercée sur une ou plusieurs personnes et qui a pour résultat qu’elle s’empare de son esprit ou de sa volonté.
- 7Rapport de domination dans une relation amoureuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmprise,empirse,empprise,empries,emprisse,emprrise,emprsie,emrpise,epmrise,meprise
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Misspelling Variants of "emprise"
Frequency rank: #8,997 in French
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