épaississement
\e.pe.sis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“épaississement” is uncommon French (frequency #59,741 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,741
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’épaissir, de s’épaissir ; ou état de ce qui est épaissi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epaississement · épaississement · French
épaississement · rank #59,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,741
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH énormités
Nearest frequency peer: énormités (-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 « épaississement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- édulcorée
édulcorée
40,263 corpus weight
- énormités
énormités
40,261 corpus weight
- épaississem…
épaississement
40,260 corpus weight
- éprend
éprend
40,259 corpus weight
- étoffée
étoffée
40,258 corpus weight
- étonnerai
étonnerai
40,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épaississement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épaississement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pe.sis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #59,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épaississement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épaississement is uncommon French at frequency #59,741 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pe.sis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’épaissir, de s’épaissir ; ou état de ce qui est épaissi.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for épaississement in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is épaississement, spelled É-P-A-I-S-S-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’épaissir, de s’épaissir ; ou état de ce qui est épaissi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épaississement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’épaississement de la taille.
L’épaississement des liqueurs.
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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