éphémérides
\e.fe.me.ʁid\
The verdict
“éphémérides” is uncommon French (frequency #61,247 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,247
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de éphéméride.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ephemerides · éphémérides · French
éphémérides · rank #61,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,247
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épancher
Nearest frequency peer: épancher (-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 « éphémérides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émeuvent
émeuvent
38,757 corpus weight
- émois
émois
38,756 corpus weight
- épancher
épancher
38,755 corpus weight
- éphémérides
éphémérides
38,754 corpus weight
- éradiquée
éradiquée
38,753 corpus weight
- étancher
étancher
38,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éphémérides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éphémérides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fe.me.ʁid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éphémérides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éphémérides is uncommon French at frequency #61,247 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.fe.me.ʁid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for éphémérides, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is éphémérides, spelled É-P-H-É-M-É-R-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de éphéméride.
- 2Tables astronomiques par lesquelles on détermine, pour chaque jour, le lieu de chaque planète dans le zodiaque ou les heures des marées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éphémérides appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’éclipse totale devait durer, d’après les calculs des éphémérides, quatre minutes trente-sept secondes, c’est-à-dire de onze heures quarante-trois minutes et quinze secondes à onze heures quarante-sept minutes et cinquante-sept secondes du matin.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).