embarassment
"embarassment" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“embarassment” is uncommon English (frequency #94,826 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,826
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misspelling of embarrassment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-embarassment · embarassment · English
embarassment · rank #94,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,826
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Ellice
Nearest frequency peer: Ellice (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “embarassment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ellice
Ellice
5,176 corpus weight
- embarassment
embarassment
5,175 corpus weight
- emetic
emetic
5,173 corpus weight
- emmer
emmer
5,172 corpus weight
- enneagram
enneagram
5,168 corpus weight
- entertainin…
entertainingly
5,167 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “embarassment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarassment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #94,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “embarassment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
embarassment is uncommon English at frequency #94,826 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Misspelling of embarrassment.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embarassment, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 English form is embarassment, spelled E-M-B-A-R-A-S-S-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Misspelling of embarrassment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embarassment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“I’m gonna say it: soccer is one of the most dogs**t sports to ever exist, it’s an embarassment to humankind. I said it, get mad,” xQc said after his opponent scored yet again. “Keep malding, and I want to make sure people understand: it is not ‘football,’ it’s soccer.”
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).