émulsion
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,564
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
émulsion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Préparation liquide d’apparence laiteuse tenant en suspension une substance huileuse ou résineuse. Pronounced \e.myl.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with expulsion and émission.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | émulsion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.myl.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for émulsion is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.myl.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,564 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for émulsion, with forms such as "emulsion", "méulsion", and "émlusion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "expulsion", "émission", "émulation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is émulsion, spelled É-M-U-L-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préparation liquide d’apparence laiteuse tenant en suspension une substance huileuse ou résineuse.
- 2Milieu hétérogène constitué par la dispersion, à l'état de particules très fines, d'un liquide dans un autre liquide en phase continue, la phase dispersante.
- 3Mélange sensible à la lumière, composé de sels d’argent à l’état de cristaux microscopiques en suspension dans la gélatine, le collodion, qu’on applique en couche très mince sur la plaque ou le film.
- 4Film ou pellicule photographique.
- 5Mélange de gravillons liés avec du bitume liquide que l'on utilise pour la réalisation de circulations à faible trafic ou pour l’entretien provisoire des routes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emulsion,méulsion,émlusion,émmulsion,émulison,émullsion,émulsino,émulsionn,émulsoin,émulssion,émuslion,éumlsion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "émulsion"
Frequency rank: #40,564 in French
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