embarras
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,370
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
embarras is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui embarrasse ou résultat de l’action d’embarrasser. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ba.ʁa\. Often confused with embarrassé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ba.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for embarras is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ba.ʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,370 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 embarras, with forms such as "ebmarras", "emabrras", and "embarars". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "embarrassé", 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 embarras, spelled E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui embarrasse ou résultat de l’action d’embarrasser.
- 2Commencement d’obstruction, et surtout d’une accumulation de matières dans l’estomac ou dans les intestins.
- 3Prétention, affectation, attitude de faiseur.
- 4Confusion de plusieurs choses difficiles à débrouiller.
- 5Manque d’argent, pénurie.
- 6Irrésolution dans laquelle on se trouve lorsqu’on ne sait quel parti prendre, ni par quelle voie se tirer de quelque pas difficile.
- 7Gêne, malaise que cause la nécessité d’agir ou de parler, lorsqu’on ne sait que faire ni que dire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebmarras,emabrras,embarars,embaras,embarrass,embarrsa,embbarras,embraras,emmbarras,mebarras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for embarras
Misspelling Variants of "embarras"
Frequency rank: #13,370 in French
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