embarrer
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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embarrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Clore par une barre ; bloquer une porte par une barre. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ba.ʁe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embarrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ba.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for embarrer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ba.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for embarrer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 embarrer, spelled E-M-B-A-R-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clore par une barre ; bloquer une porte par une barre.
- 2Mettre une barre pour bloquer une roue et entraver la marche d'un véhicule.
- 3Faire levier avec une barre ; soulever.
- 4Soulever un affût de canon avec un levier pour ajuster la position de tir.
- 5Agir mal à propos et sans adresse sur la barre.
- 6S'embarrasser les jambes dans les barres de la stalle.
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