embarrassant
\ɑ̃.ba.ʁa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“embarrassant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,142
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cause de l’embarras ; qui est incommode ou gênant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embarrassant · embarrassant · French
embarrassant · rank #30,142 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,142
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elton
Nearest frequency peer: Elton (-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 « embarrassant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- eat
eat
69,862 corpus weight
- effacent
effacent
69,861 corpus weight
- Elton
Elton
69,860 corpus weight
- embarrassant
embarrassant
69,859 corpus weight
- embrassée
embrassée
69,858 corpus weight
- emménage
emménage
69,857 corpus weight
What this shows « embarrassant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarrassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ba.ʁa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #30,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embarrassant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around embarrassant (IPA \ɑ̃.ba.ʁa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,142 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui cause de l’embarras ; qui est incommode ou gênant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for embarrassant, with forms such as "ebmarrassant", "emabrrassant", and "embararssant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "embrassant", "embarrassante", "embarrassantes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is embarrassant, spelled E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui cause de l’embarras ; qui est incommode ou gênant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embarrassant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette anthropologie approximative du peuple satyresque laisse de côté l’embarrassante question des satyreaux, dont on se demande comment ils ont bien pu être engendrés dans cet univers sans femmes: […].
Cela est embarrassant à porter. — Ce choix est embarrassant. — Situation, position embarrassante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmarrassant
- emabrrassant
- embararssant
- embarassant
- embarrasant
- embarrasasnt
- embarrassannt
- embarrassantt
- embarrassatn
- embarrassnat
- embarrsasant
- embbarrassant
- embrarassant
- emmbarrassant
- mebarrassant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embarrassant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).