embaumer
\ɑ̃.bo.me\
The verdict
“embaumer” is uncommon French (frequency #89,666 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,666
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduire dans un cadavre des substances propres à empêcher qu’il ne se corrompe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embaumer · embaumer · French
embaumer · rank #89,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,666
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embourber
Nearest frequency peer: embourber (+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 « embaumer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eiger
Eiger
10,338 corpus weight
- Ekman
Ekman
10,337 corpus weight
- embaumer
embaumer
10,335 corpus weight
- embourber
embourber
10,334 corpus weight
- embêtes
embêtes
10,333 corpus weight
- Empédocle
Empédocle
10,331 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embaumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embaumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bo.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embaumer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embaumer is uncommon French at frequency #89,666 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bo.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for embaumer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is embaumer, spelled E-M-B-A-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Introduire dans un cadavre des substances propres à empêcher qu’il ne se corrompe.
- 2Parfumer ; remplir de bonne odeur.
- 3Fleurer ; sentir bon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embaumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Nous t’embaumerons, nous te pétrifierons afin que la face du premier Infaillible vive à jamais.
[…], non seulement la morte ne dégagea aucune odeur de putréfaction, mais encore elle continua à embaumer, comme de son vivant, une senteur inanalysable, exquise.
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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