emplitvsemploiWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: emplit is a verb, emploi is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“emplit” is a verb and “emploi” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,139
“emplit” frequency rank
#567
“emploi” frequency rank
46706
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature emplit emploi
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de emplir. Usage qu’on fait de quelque chose.

Where the eye mixes emplit and emploi

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
emplit
6 ch
emploi

Look-alike desk: emplit vs emploi

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: emplit is \ɑ̃.pli\ while emploi is \ɑ̃.plwa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46706, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

emplit is recorded at frequency rank #46,139, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.pli\. emploi is at rank #567, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.plwa\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 46706, this pair ranks #192,780 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of emplit vs emploi

Shared letters: eilmp. Private to "emplit": t. Private to "emploi": o.

"emplit" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC  ·  "emploi" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • emplitemlpit · emmplit · empilt · emplitt · empllit · emplti · empplit · epmlit
  • emploiemlpoi · emmploi · emplio · emplloi · empoli · empploi · epmloi · meploi

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "emplit" and "emploi" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "emplit" is a verb and "emploi" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "emplit" or "emploi" show up more?
"emploi" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #567 in our French list, against #46,139 for "emplit". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "emplit" and "emploi" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "emplit" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "emploi" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #192,780 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "emplit" and "emploi" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "émit vs emplit". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #192,780 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list