embaume
\ɑ̃.bom\
The verdict
“embaume” is uncommon French (frequency #83,826 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,826
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de embaumer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embaume · embaume · French
embaume · rank #83,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,826
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embrayer
Nearest frequency peer: embrayer (+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 « embaume »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- efficients
efficients
16,179 corpus weight
- Elisabetta
Elisabetta
16,178 corpus weight
- Elisha
Elisha
16,177 corpus weight
- embaume
embaume
16,175 corpus weight
- embrayer
embrayer
16,174 corpus weight
- encaisses
encaisses
16,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embaume » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embaume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embaume » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embaume is uncommon French at frequency #83,826 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for embaume in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is embaume, spelled E-M-B-A-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de embaumer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de embaumer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de embaumer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de embaumer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de embaumer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embaume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a là une tomme avec ses artezons, qui embaume.
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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