épanche
\e.pɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“épanche” is uncommon French (frequency #90,343 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,343
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de épancher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epanche · épanche · French
épanche · rank #90,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,343
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émancipés
Nearest frequency peer: émancipés (-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 « épanche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émacié
émacié
9,660 corpus weight
- émancipés
émancipés
9,659 corpus weight
- épanche
épanche
9,658 corpus weight
- épidémiolog…
épidémiologistes
9,657 corpus weight
- éradiqués
éradiqués
9,656 corpus weight
- érectiles
érectiles
9,655 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épanche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.pɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épanche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épanche is uncommon French at frequency #90,343 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.pɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for épanche, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is épanche, spelled É-P-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de épancher.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de épancher.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de épancher.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de épancher.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de épancher.
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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