éprouva
\e.pʁu.va\
The verdict
“éprouva” is uncommon French (frequency #82,608 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,608
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de éprouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eprouva · éprouva · French
éprouva · rank #82,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,608
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épousez
Nearest frequency peer: épousez (-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 « éprouva »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- émiettement
émiettement
17,396 corpus weight
- épiphane
épiphane
17,395 corpus weight
- épousez
épousez
17,394 corpus weight
- éprouva
éprouva
17,393 corpus weight
- équipera
équipera
17,392 corpus weight
- étymologiqu…
étymologiques
17,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éprouva » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éprouva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.pʁu.va\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éprouva » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éprouva is uncommon French at frequency #82,608 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.pʁu.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de éprouver.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for éprouva, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éprouva, spelled É-P-R-O-U-V-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de éprouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éprouva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle éprouva à ce moment un remord de s’être trop longtemps occupée de son malheur personnel, d’avoir soigné son propre cas et essayé d’abord de se désaffliger elle-même.
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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