embarrassent
\ɑ̃.ba.ʁas\
The verdict
“embarrassent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,476 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,476
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de embarrasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embarrassent · embarrassent · French
embarrassent · rank #77,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,476
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH efe
Nearest frequency peer: efe (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « embarrassent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Edmée
Edmée
22,527 corpus weight
- efe
efe
22,526 corpus weight
- embarrassent
embarrassent
22,525 corpus weight
- emboutissage
emboutissage
22,524 corpus weight
- emme
emme
22,523 corpus weight
- emplir
emplir
22,522 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embarrassent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarrassent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ba.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #77,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embarrassent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embarrassent is uncommon French at frequency #77,476 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ba.ʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
embarrassent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 embarrassent, spelled E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de embarrasser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de embarrasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embarrassent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les phénotypes exprimés par les caractères récessifs ne s’embarrassent pas de frontières.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).