épargner
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,620
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
épargner is aFrenchverb. It means: Ménager quelque chose, ne l’employer qu’avec réserve. Pronounced \e.paʁ.ɲe\. Often confused with épargnes and épargnez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épargner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.paʁ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épargner is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.paʁ.ɲe\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,620 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for épargner, with forms such as "epargner", "péargner", and "éaprgner". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "épargnes", "épargnez", "épargne", and more, 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 épargner, spelled É-P-A-R-G-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ménager quelque chose, ne l’employer qu’avec réserve.
- 2Dispenser ou préserver quelqu’un d’une chose, ne pas la lui laisser éprouver, ne pas la lui faire subir.
- 3Laisser la vie sauve.
- 4Ne pas porter atteinte.
- 5Traiter avec ménagement.
- 6Ne pas traiter quelqu’un aussi mal qu’on serait en droit de le faire.
- 7Employer le blanc du papier ou de l’ivoire pour produire, sans crayon ni peinture, les parties lumineuses.
- 8Mettre de l’argent de côté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epargner,péargner,éaprgner,épagrner,épargenr,éparggner,épargnerr,épargnner,épargnre,éparnger,éparrgner,éppargner,épragner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for épargner
Misspelling Variants of "épargner"
Frequency rank: #10,620 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter É in our French index: