épaulée
\e.po.le\
The verdict
“épaulée” is uncommon French (frequency #65,641 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,641
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effort qu’on fait de l’épaule pour pousser quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epaulee · épaulée · French
épaulée · rank #65,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,641
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éparpillement
Nearest frequency peer: éparpillement (-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 « épaulée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éliminez
éliminez
34,363 corpus weight
- émule
émule
34,362 corpus weight
- éparpilleme…
éparpillement
34,361 corpus weight
- épaulée
épaulée
34,360 corpus weight
- épistémolog…
épistémologiques
34,359 corpus weight
- éplorée
éplorée
34,358 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épaulée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épaulée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.po.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épaulée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épaulée is uncommon French at frequency #65,641 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.po.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for épaulée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is épaulée, spelled É-P-A-U-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Effort qu’on fait de l’épaule pour pousser quelque chose.
- 2Quartier de devant du mouton, dont on a retranché l’épaule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how épaulée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfoncer une porte d’une seule épaulée.
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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