embardée
\ɑ̃.baʁ.de\
The verdict
“embardée” is an uncommon French word, ranked #75,651 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,651
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mouvement brusque de translation transversale imprimé à un navire, produit soit par une rafale de vent, soit par une lame, soit par un coup de barre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embardée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.baʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “embardée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for embardée is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.baʁ.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,651 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embardée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 embardée, spelled E-M-B-A-R-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Mouvement brusque de translation transversale imprimé à un navire, produit soit par une rafale de vent, soit par une lame, soit par un coup de barre.
- 2Mouvement brusque que fait un véhicule suite à une perte de contrôle, ou par écart volontaire du conducteur pour éviter un obstacle.
- 3Écart de conduite.
- 4Écart brusque.
- 5Incident qui survient parfois lors de la séparation de deux étages d’un lanceur et qui consiste en une impulsion communiquée par l’une des parties à l’autre dans une direction différente de celle de la séparation.
This word in other languages
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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Using “embardée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-M-B-A-R-D-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.baʁ.de\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.