embarbouiller
\ɑ̃.baʁ.bu.je\
The verdict
“embarbouiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barbouiller ; salir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embarbouiller · embarbouiller · French
embarbouiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarbouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.baʁ.bu.je\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embarbouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embarbouiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.baʁ.bu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embarbouiller, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is embarbouiller, spelled E-M-B-A-R-B-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Barbouiller ; salir.
- 2Devenir flou ou confus, embrouiller, brouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embarbouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arrivée dans la boutique, repérable à ses volets verts où, sur panneau émaillé, toute la famille Delespaul-Havez se délectait, se salissait, s’embarbouillait de coulées de chocolat fondu, Isabelle s’impatienta.
Eh bian ! le vlà encore embarbouillé dans les épousailles.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.