éprouvez
\e.pʁu.ve\
The verdict
“éprouvez” is uncommon French (frequency #51,229 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,229
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de éprouver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éprouvez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.pʁu.ve\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “éprouvez” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
éprouvez is uncommon French at frequency #51,229 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.pʁu.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for éprouvez, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 éprouvez, spelled É-P-R-O-U-V-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de éprouver.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de éprouver.
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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Using “éprouvez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-P-R-O-U-V-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.pʁu.ve\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.