épeler
\e.ple\
The verdict
“épeler” is uncommon French (frequency #57,033 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,033
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner l’orthographe d’un mot, lettre par lettre, parfois en groupant les lettres par syllabes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epeler · épeler · French
épeler · rank #57,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,033
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épanchement
Nearest frequency peer: épanchement (-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 « épeler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émirs
émirs
42,970 corpus weight
- épanchement
épanchement
42,969 corpus weight
- épeler
épeler
42,968 corpus weight
- épigraphie
épigraphie
42,967 corpus weight
- épileptiques
épileptiques
42,966 corpus weight
- Épinay
Épinay
42,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épeler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épeler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ple\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épeler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épeler is uncommon French at frequency #57,033 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ple\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for épeler in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 épeler, spelled É-P-E-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner l’orthographe d’un mot, lettre par lettre, parfois en groupant les lettres par syllabes.
- 2Lire avec peine, lentement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épeler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Épelez ce mot.
Il commence à épeler.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).