embassy
\ˈɛmbəsi\
The verdict
“embassy” is uncommon French (frequency #97,920 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,920
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ambassade (mission ou lieu).
Corpus desk
Index FR-embassy · embassy · French
embassy · rank #97,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,920
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elian
Nearest frequency peer: Elian (-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 « embassy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elastic
elastic
2,084 corpus weight
- Elian
Elian
2,082 corpus weight
- embassy
embassy
2,081 corpus weight
- embrouillées
embrouillées
2,080 corpus weight
- emmagasine
emmagasine
2,079 corpus weight
- emmènerait
emmènerait
2,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embassy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embassy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛmbəsi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embassy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embassy is uncommon French at frequency #97,920 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛmbəsi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ambassade (mission ou lieu).".
embassy has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is embassy, spelled E-M-B-A-S-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Ambassade (mission ou lieu).
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).