embargo
\ɑ̃.baʁ.ɡo\
The verdict
“embargo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,532
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défense faite aux navires qui sont dans un port ou sur une rade d’en sortir sans permission.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embargo · embargo · French
embargo · rank #19,532 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,532
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ella
Nearest frequency peer: ella (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « embargo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dûment
dûment
80,472 corpus weight
- ella
ella
80,470 corpus weight
- embargo
embargo
80,469 corpus weight
- emmenée
emmenée
80,468 corpus weight
- enclin
enclin
80,467 corpus weight
- enverra
enverra
80,466 corpus weight
What this shows « embargo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embargo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.baʁ.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embargo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around embargo (IPA \ɑ̃.baʁ.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,532 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for embargo, with forms such as "ebmargo", "emabrgo", and "embagro". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is embargo, spelled E-M-B-A-R-G-O.
Definition
- 1Défense faite aux navires qui sont dans un port ou sur une rade d’en sortir sans permission.
- 2Toute mesure tendant à empêcher la circulation d’un objet.
- 3Délai avant de diffuser une information, programme, oeuvre littéraire ou travail de recherche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embargo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussitôt que le navire entra dans le port, il fut accosté par les représentants d’un soi-disant Comité provisoire, qui mit l’embargo sur le reste des provisions.
L’hypothèse la plus prometteuse repose sur une analyse de la politique menée par l’archè athénienne. Elle consiste à envisager un embargo athénien sur le commerce péloponnésien, suffisamment efficace pour interrompre le flux Péloponnèse/Crète/Afrique du Nord au cours d'une période de 60 ans.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmargo
- emabrgo
- embagro
- embarggo
- embarog
- embarrgo
- embbargo
- embrago
- emmbargo
- mebargo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embargo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).