emballait
\ɑ̃.ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“emballait” is uncommon French (frequency #93,724 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,724
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emballer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emballait · emballait · French
emballait · rank #93,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,724
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embrigader
Nearest frequency peer: embrigader (+2 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 « emballait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effacerait
effacerait
6,282 corpus weight
- emballait
emballait
6,277 corpus weight
- embrigader
embrigader
6,275 corpus weight
- emmêler
emmêler
6,274 corpus weight
- empanadas
empanadas
6,273 corpus weight
- empennage
empennage
6,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emballait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emballait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emballait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emballait is uncommon French at frequency #93,724 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ba.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emballer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for emballait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is emballait, spelled E-M-B-A-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emballer.
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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