éparse
\e.paʁs\
The verdict
“éparse” is uncommon French (frequency #84,462 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,462
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier d’épars.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eparse · éparse · French
éparse · rank #84,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,462
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émargement
Nearest frequency peer: émargement (-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 « éparse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éliminerait
éliminerait
15,542 corpus weight
- émargement
émargement
15,540 corpus weight
- éparse
éparse
15,539 corpus weight
- éphèbe
éphèbe
15,538 corpus weight
- épigraphique
épigraphique
15,537 corpus weight
- époustoufla…
époustouflantes
15,536 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éparse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éparse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.paʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éparse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éparse is uncommon French at frequency #84,462 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.paʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier d’épars.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for éparse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éparse, spelled É-P-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier d’épars.
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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