ambrée
\ɑ̃.bʁe\
The verdict
“ambrée” is uncommon French (frequency #53,760 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,760
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bière de couleur roux clair, brassée à partir de malt non torréfié et de malt torréfié (environ 10 % minimum de la quantité totale de malt).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ambree · ambrée · French
ambrée · rank #53,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,760
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambages
Nearest frequency peer: ambages (-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 « ambrée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Amalia
Amalia
46,245 corpus weight
- amandiers
amandiers
46,244 corpus weight
- amarrer
amarrer
46,243 corpus weight
- ambages
ambages
46,242 corpus weight
- ambrée
ambrée
46,241 corpus weight
- amphithéâtr…
amphithéâtres
46,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ambrée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ambrée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ambrée is uncommon French at frequency #53,760 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bière de couleur roux clair, brassée à partir de malt non torréfié et de malt torréfié (environ 10 % minimum de la quantité totale de malt).".
ambrée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ambrée, spelled A-M-B-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Bière de couleur roux clair, brassée à partir de malt non torréfié et de malt torréfié (environ 10 % minimum de la quantité totale de malt).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ambrée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Khoury sirotait une bière locale, de la brasserie La Captive, une ambrée.
This word in other languages
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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