épagneul
\e.pa.ɲœl\
The verdict
“épagneul” is uncommon French (frequency #75,367 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,367
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien d’arrêt ou de chien de compagnie, à poil long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epagneul · épagneul · French
épagneul · rank #75,367 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,367
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH électromagnét…
Nearest frequency peer: électromagnétisme (-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 « épagneul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- égorgement
égorgement
24,637 corpus weight
- électrifié
électrifié
24,636 corpus weight
- électromagn…
électromagnétisme
24,635 corpus weight
- épagneul
épagneul
24,634 corpus weight
- épandre
épandre
24,633 corpus weight
- épidémiques
épidémiques
24,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épagneul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épagneul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pa.ɲœl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épagneul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épagneul is uncommon French at frequency #75,367 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pa.ɲœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien d’arrêt ou de chien de compagnie, à poil long.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for épagneul, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is épagneul, spelled É-P-A-G-N-E-U-L.
Definition
- 1Race de chien d’arrêt ou de chien de compagnie, à poil long.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épagneul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les épagneuls font partie soit du groupe 7 (chiens d’arrêt) du classement des races de chien par la société centrale canine ou SCC soit du groupe 9 (chiens d’agrément et de compagnie).
Les autorités de l’Asile des chiens de Battersea furent fort surprises quand il leur demanda un épagneul sourd et refusa tous les candidats qui dressaient l’oreille.
This word in other languages
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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