embastiller
\ɑ̃.bas.ti.je\
The verdict
“embastiller” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre à la Bastille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embastiller · embastiller · French
embastiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embastiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bas.ti.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
embastiller is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bas.ti.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embastiller, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is embastiller, spelled E-M-B-A-S-T-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre à la Bastille.
- 2ou Emprisonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embastiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un soir on ramassa dans un tripot un petit mauvais sujet qu’on mit à la Bastille, sus le nom de l’abbé boiteux. […] Sainte-Foix témoigna le regret qu’on eût embastillé un séminariste qui faisait un si bon modèle pour les officiers de dragons.
Faire embastiller le monsieur, comme l’avait fait mon prédécesseur, fut pour moi l’affaire d’une demi-heure.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.