emballer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,303
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
emballer is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre en balle des objets en vue du transport. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ba.le\. Often confused with embellir and emballe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emballer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ba.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for emballer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ba.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,303 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 emballer, with forms such as "ebmaller", "emabller", and "embalelr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "embellir", "emballe", "emballée", 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 emballer, spelled E-M-B-A-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre en balle des objets en vue du transport.
- 2Faire partir quelqu’un en voiture, ou le voir monter en voiture pour un voyage.
- 3Ravir de surprise, d’admiration ; entraîner.
- 4Séduire, pour amener au flirt.
- 5S'emporter et ne pouvoir plus être retenu, en parlant d'un cheval qui prend le mors aux dents
- 6S'accélérer, hors de tout contrôle, en parlant d'une machine qui ne peut plus être arrêtée.
- 7S’exalter d’une façon irréfléchie et excessive pour ou contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 8Accepter la proposition de couleur d'un autre joueur.
- 9Appréhender et conduire en prison.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebmaller,emabller,embalelr,embaler,emballerr,emballre,embballer,emblaler,emmballer,meballer
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emballer
Misspelling Variants of "emballer"
Frequency rank: #21,303 in French
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