empyème
French, noun/ɑ̃.pjɛm/
empyème is spelled E-M-P-Y-È-M-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empyème is a French masculine noun meaning “empyema” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amas de pus dans quelque cavité du corps”.
What does empyème mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineempyema
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Amas de pus dans quelque cavité du corps. 2. Amas de pus dans la cavité pleurale, Pleurésie purulente. 3. Opération chirurgicale par laquelle on fait une ouverture au bas de la poitrine pour donner une issue au pus, au sang épanché dans la cavité pleurale dans le but de stopper la compression du poumon qui en résultait.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of empyème
- empyèmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empyème?
- /ɑ̃.pjɛm/
- \ɑ̃.pjɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empyème
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empyème in French?
empyème appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).