ébauche
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,321
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
ébauche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Forme préparatoire d’un ouvrage d’art, dont seules les parties principales sont traitées plus ou moins sommairement, mais de façon à donner l’idée de l’ouvrage terminé. Pronounced \e.boʃ\. Often confused with étanche and embauché.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ébauche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.boʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ébauche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.boʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,321 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for ébauche, with forms such as "béauche", "ebauche", and "éabuche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "étanche", "embauché", "embaucher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ébauche, spelled É-B-A-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme préparatoire d’un ouvrage d’art, dont seules les parties principales sont traitées plus ou moins sommairement, mais de façon à donner l’idée de l’ouvrage terminé.
- 2Premier stade d’exécution d’une œuvre d’art.
- 3Première version d’un ouvrage littéraire.
- 4Tout ce qui est à l’état inachevé.
- 5En embryologie, ensemble des tissus qui formeront un organe.
- 6Tube en acier sans soudure et de forte épaisseur destiné à être usiné.
- 7Article qui donne trop peu d’informations sur un sujet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: béauche,ebauche,éabuche,ébacuhe,ébaucche,ébauceh,ébauchhe,ébauhce,ébbauche,ébuache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ébauche
Misspelling Variants of "ébauche"
Frequency rank: #20,321 in French
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Nearby French words
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