épousailles
\e.pu.zaj\
The verdict
“épousailles” is uncommon French (frequency #98,670 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,670
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Célébration d’un mariage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epousailles · épousailles · French
épousailles · rank #98,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,670
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épaulement
Nearest frequency peer: épaulement (-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 « épousailles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émeu
émeu
1,334 corpus weight
- émeuve
émeuve
1,333 corpus weight
- épaulement
épaulement
1,332 corpus weight
- épousailles
épousailles
1,331 corpus weight
- équerres
équerres
1,330 corpus weight
- équidistance
équidistance
1,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épousailles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épousailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pu.zaj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épousailles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épousailles is uncommon French at frequency #98,670 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pu.zaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
épousailles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is épousailles, spelled É-P-O-U-S-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Célébration d’un mariage.
- 2Noces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épousailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Libératrices, les épousailles populaires représentent en général un engagement de tout l’être où la satisfaction personnelle l’emporte sur les autres raisons.
Dans l’esprit de la brave portière, … il lui apparaissait que le fait de son habit noir devait coïncider avec des projets d’épousailles.
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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