emprunta
\ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.ta\
The verdict
“emprunta” is uncommon French (frequency #81,992 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,992
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de emprunter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emprunta · emprunta · French
emprunta · rank #81,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,992
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embellis
Nearest frequency peer: embellis (-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 « emprunta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elme
elme
18,011 corpus weight
- embellis
embellis
18,010 corpus weight
- emprunta
emprunta
18,009 corpus weight
- enchaîna
enchaîna
18,008 corpus weight
- encombremen…
encombrements
18,007 corpus weight
- encourages
encourages
18,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emprunta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emprunta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emprunta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emprunta is uncommon French at frequency #81,992 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de emprunter.".
emprunta has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is emprunta, spelled E-M-P-R-U-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de emprunter.
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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