embellie
\ɑ̃.bɛ.li\
The verdict
“embellie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,015. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,015
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amélioration du temps, devenant beau pour un moment, après une bourrasque, un grain violent ou un coup de vent obstiné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embellie · embellie · French
embellie · rank #35,015 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,015
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embarrassante
Nearest frequency peer: embarrassante (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « embellie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- effusion
effusion
64,990 corpus weight
- Elbeuf
Elbeuf
64,989 corpus weight
- emballée
emballée
64,988 corpus weight
- embarrassan…
embarrassante
64,987 corpus weight
- embellie
embellie
64,986 corpus weight
- emmenant
emmenant
64,985 corpus weight
What this shows « embellie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embellie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bɛ.li\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embellie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around embellie (IPA \ɑ̃.bɛ.li\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,015 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for embellie, with forms such as "ebmellie", "embbellie", and "embelie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "embolie", "embellir", "embellit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is embellie, spelled E-M-B-E-L-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Amélioration du temps, devenant beau pour un moment, après une bourrasque, un grain violent ou un coup de vent obstiné.
- 2Moment de ralentissement dans l’agitation de la mer ou dans la violence du vent.
- 3Circonstance favorable, bonne occasion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embellie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’attends une embellie pour sortir.
Profiter d’une embellie pour passer une barre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmellie
- embbellie
- embelie
- embelile
- embellei
- emblelie
- emebllie
- emmbellie
- mebellie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embellie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "embellie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).