embase
\ɑ̃.baz\
The verdict
“embase” is uncommon French (frequency #94,749 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,749
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surface d’appui, partie d’une pièce de menuiserie ou d’une pièce de métal ou d’un ouvrage d’art sur laquelle repose une autre pièce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embase · embase · French
embase · rank #94,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,749
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embauchera
Nearest frequency peer: embauchera (+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 « embase »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eisen
Eisen
5,255 corpus weight
- Elsass
Elsass
5,254 corpus weight
- embase
embase
5,252 corpus weight
- embauchera
embauchera
5,251 corpus weight
- embauchées
embauchées
5,250 corpus weight
- embedded
embedded
5,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embase » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.baz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embase » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embase is uncommon French at frequency #94,749 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.baz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for embase, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is embase, spelled E-M-B-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Surface d’appui, partie d’une pièce de menuiserie ou d’une pièce de métal ou d’un ouvrage d’art sur laquelle repose une autre pièce.
- 2Bande de plomb que l’on place au bas d'un arêtier d’un comble en ardoise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui qui sait faire l’étanchéité d’une embase sait tout fixer sans défaut sur un pont.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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