EPO
\ø.pe.o\
The verdict
“EPO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,067) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,067
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormone glycoprotéique, facteur de croissance des précurseurs des globules rouges dans la moelle osseuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epo · EPO · French
EPO · rank #49,067 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,067
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entorses
Nearest frequency peer: entorses (-2 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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « EPO »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- encourir
encourir
50,939 corpus weight
- enfermant
enfermant
50,937 corpus weight
- entorses
entorses
50,936 corpus weight
- EPO
EPO
50,934 corpus weight
- escroquer
escroquer
50,932 corpus weight
- España
España
50,931 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « EPO » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | EPO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ø.pe.o\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « EPO »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for EPO is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "Eu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ø.pe.o\. Frequency #49,067 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Hormone glycoprotéique, facteur de croissance des précurseurs des globules rouges dans la moelle osseuse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for EPO, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "Eu", "ez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 EPO, spelled E-P-O.
Definition
- 1Hormone glycoprotéique, facteur de croissance des précurseurs des globules rouges dans la moelle osseuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how EPO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’EPO est naturellement sécrétée par le rein en plus ou moins grande quantité selon les individus. Un taux élevé d’EPO n’est donc pas forcément synonyme de dopage, il faut pouvoir distinguer l’EPO naturelle de l’EPO artificielle.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).