embarquaient
\ɑ̃.baʁ.kɛ\
The verdict
“embarquaient” is uncommon French (frequency #91,644 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,644
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de embarquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embarquaient · embarquaient · French
embarquaient · rank #91,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,644
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH efforçaient
Nearest frequency peer: efforçaient (-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 « embarquaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effaceur
effaceur
8,362 corpus weight
- effeuillage
effeuillage
8,361 corpus weight
- efforçaient
efforçaient
8,359 corpus weight
- embarquaient
embarquaient
8,357 corpus weight
- emotional
emotional
8,353 corpus weight
- emplies
emplies
8,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embarquaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.baʁ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embarquaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embarquaient is uncommon French at frequency #91,644 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.baʁ.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de embarquer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embarquaient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 embarquaient, spelled E-M-B-A-R-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de embarquer.
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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