ébranlement
\e.bʁɑ̃l.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ébranlement” is uncommon French (frequency #99,783 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,783
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’ébranler ou mouvement de ce qui est ébranlé, de ce qui s’ébranle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ebranlement · ébranlement · French
ébranlement · rank #99,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,783
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échafaude
Nearest frequency peer: échafaude (+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 « ébranlement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zigzaguer
zigzaguer
221 corpus weight
- zoome
zoome
220 corpus weight
- ébranlement
ébranlement
218 corpus weight
- échafaude
échafaude
217 corpus weight
- échoueront
échoueront
216 corpus weight
- éconduire
éconduire
215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ébranlement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ébranlement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.bʁɑ̃l.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #99,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ébranlement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ébranlement is uncommon French at frequency #99,783 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.bʁɑ̃l.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’ébranler ou mouvement de ce qui est ébranlé, de ce qui s’ébranle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ébranlement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ébranlement, spelled É-B-R-A-N-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’ébranler ou mouvement de ce qui est ébranlé, de ce qui s’ébranle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ébranlement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après un si grand ébranlement, il est à craindre que cette muraille ne tombe.
L'ébranlement du séisme du 31 mai 1970 a provoqué un phénomène semblable, mais plus important encore.
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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