postémergence
\pɔs.te.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“postémergence” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période qui succède à la levée des graines dans les champs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postemergence · postémergence · French
postémergence · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postémergence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔs.te.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
postémergence is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔs.te.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Période qui succède à la levée des graines dans les champs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for postémergence in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 postémergence, spelled P-O-S-T-É-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Période qui succède à la levée des graines dans les champs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postémergence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les herbicides étudiés, à propriétés antigraminées spécifiques, se sont montrés plus sélectifs que les produits de comparaison, précédemment utilisés en postémergence : dalapon et éthofumésate.
En postémergence, on peut également combattre les problèmes de graminées au moyen d’alloxydime-sodium, de séthoxydime, de fluazifop-butyl, d’haloxyfop-éthoxyéthyl et de quizalofop-éthyl.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.