embauchoir
\ɑ̃.bo.ʃwaʁ\
The verdict
“embauchoir” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrument de bois ou de plastique en forme de pied dont on se sert pour élargir les chaussures ou pour empêcher qu’elles ne se déforment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embauchoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bo.ʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “embauchoir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for embauchoir is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.bo.ʃwaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrument de bois ou de plastique en forme de pied dont on se sert pour élargir les chaussures ou pour empêcher qu’elles ne se déforment.".
embauchoir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is embauchoir, spelled E-M-B-A-U-C-H-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Instrument de bois ou de plastique en forme de pied dont on se sert pour élargir les chaussures ou pour empêcher qu’elles ne se déforment.
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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.
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Using “embauchoir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-M-B-A-U-C-H-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.bo.ʃwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.