épatée
\e.pa.te\
The verdict
“épatée” is uncommon French (frequency #86,350 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,350
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de épaté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epatee · épatée · French
épatée · rank #86,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,350
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 40,273
- PHOTO-FINISH épaissi
Nearest frequency peer: épaissi (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “épatée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- émuler
émuler
13,654 corpus weight
- Énéide
Énéide
13,653 corpus weight
- épaissi
épaissi
13,652 corpus weight
- épatée
épatée
13,651 corpus weight
- établirons
établirons
13,649 corpus weight
- étourdissan…
étourdissante
13,648 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “épatée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épatée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pa.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “épatée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
épatée is uncommon French at frequency #86,350 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.pa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de épaté.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for épatée, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is épatée, spelled É-P-A-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de épaté.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "épatée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.