épillets
\e.pi.jɛ\
The verdict
“épillets” is uncommon French (frequency #96,536 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,536
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de épillet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epillets · épillets · French
épillets · rank #96,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,536
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émergences
Nearest frequency peer: émergences (-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 « épillets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- électrochim…
électrochimie
3,468 corpus weight
- élisez
élisez
3,467 corpus weight
- émergences
émergences
3,466 corpus weight
- épillets
épillets
3,465 corpus weight
- épizootie
épizootie
3,464 corpus weight
- épéistes
épéistes
3,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épillets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épillets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épillets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épillets is uncommon French at frequency #96,536 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de épillet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for épillets, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 épillets, spelled É-P-I-L-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de épillet.
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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