époque
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#487
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
époque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Moment de l’histoire qui ordinairement est marqué par quelque événement considérable. Pronounced \e.pɔk\. It ranks #487 in French word frequency. Often confused with époux and épouse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | époque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pɔk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for époque is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pɔk\. Corpus data places it at rank #487 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for époque, with forms such as "epoque", "péoque", and "éopque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "époux", "épouse", "évêque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is époque, spelled É-P-O-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moment de l’histoire qui ordinairement est marqué par quelque événement considérable.
- 2Ère géologique.
- 3Moment auquel un objet céleste occupe une position spécifique de son orbite. Moment pour lequel les éléments orbitaux d’une planète sont exacts.
- 4Menstrues.
- 5Toute partie de la durée considérée par rapport à ce qui s’y passe, à ce qu’on y fait.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epoque,péoque,éopque,époqeu,époqque,épouqe,éppoque,épqoue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for époque
Misspelling Variants of "époque"
Frequency rank: #487 in French
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