emprisonnent
\ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔn\
The verdict
“emprisonnent” is uncommon French (frequency #82,916 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,916
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de emprisonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emprisonnent · emprisonnent · French
emprisonnent · rank #82,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,916
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emporteront
Nearest frequency peer: emporteront (-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 « emprisonnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empiffrer
empiffrer
17,089 corpus weight
- empoigné
empoigné
17,087 corpus weight
- emporteront
emporteront
17,086 corpus weight
- emprisonnent
emprisonnent
17,085 corpus weight
- encerclant
encerclant
17,084 corpus weight
- encreur
encreur
17,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emprisonnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emprisonnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emprisonnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emprisonnent is uncommon French at frequency #82,916 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pʁi.zɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
emprisonnent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is emprisonnent, spelled E-M-P-R-I-S-O-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de emprisonner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de emprisonner.
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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