empruntons
\ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“empruntons” is uncommon French (frequency #69,806 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,806
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de emprunter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empruntons · empruntons · French
empruntons · rank #69,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,806
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emmènerai
Nearest frequency peer: emmènerai (-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 « empruntons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- eines
eines
30,199 corpus weight
- embauchant
embauchant
30,198 corpus weight
- emmènerai
emmènerai
30,196 corpus weight
- empruntons
empruntons
30,195 corpus weight
- endiguement
endiguement
30,194 corpus weight
- enliser
enliser
30,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empruntons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empruntons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empruntons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empruntons is uncommon French at frequency #69,806 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empruntons, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is empruntons, spelled E-M-P-R-U-N-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de emprunter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de emprunter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empruntons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’une façon plus prégnante, on pourrait même dire que dans la première phase on désidiomatise: on sort de la langue A pour aller vers la réalité et la pensée exprimées dans le texte, et dans la seconde phase on idiomatise: on rentre dans le langage et on donne à la réalité et à la pensée reconnues dans le contenu du texte la forme qui leur correspond (ou…
Empruntons une image aux railways, ne fût-ce que par façon de remboursement des emprunts qu’ils nous font.
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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