empyrée
French, noun/ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/
empyrée is spelled E-M-P-Y-R-É-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empyrée is a French masculine noun meaning “the empyrean, highest part of the sky, that the ancients considered as the stay of the deities” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de Empyrée, partie du ciel la plus élevée, que les anciens regardaient comme le séjour des divinités…”.
What does empyrée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe empyrean, highest part of the sky, that the ancients considered as the stay of the deities.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de Empyrée, partie du ciel la plus élevée, que les anciens regardaient comme le séjour des divinités célestes.
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 empyrée
- Empyrée alternative
- empyrées plural
- empirée obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empyrée?
- /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/
- \ɑ̃.pi.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empyrée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empyrée in French?
empyrée appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).