éparpillent
\e.paʁ.pij\
The verdict
“éparpillent” is uncommon French (frequency #88,258 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,258
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de éparpiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eparpillent · éparpillent · French
éparpillent · rank #88,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,258
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éon
Nearest frequency peer: éon (-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 « éparpillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élias
élias
11,746 corpus weight
- éliminait
éliminait
11,745 corpus weight
- éon
éon
11,744 corpus weight
- éparpillent
éparpillent
11,743 corpus weight
- éperdu
éperdu
11,742 corpus weight
- épigramme
épigramme
11,741 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éparpillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éparpillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.paʁ.pij\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éparpillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éparpillent is uncommon French at frequency #88,258 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.paʁ.pij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for éparpillent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is éparpillent, spelled É-P-A-R-P-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de éparpiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de éparpiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éparpillent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais quand ils ne veulent plus s’agréger à la meute mais s’éparpillent, il faut les reprendre, jusqu’à ce qu'ils s’accoutument, en courant sur le lièvre, à le trouver, car s’ils le cherchent toujours dans le désordre ils finissent par prendre l’habitude de se désameuter, détestable leçon !
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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