embellis
\ɑ̃.be.li\
The verdict
“embellis” is uncommon French (frequency #81,991 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,991
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de embellir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embellis · embellis · French
embellis · rank #81,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,991
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH elme
Nearest frequency peer: elme (-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 « embellis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Elam
Elam
18,014 corpus weight
- elme
elme
18,011 corpus weight
- embellis
embellis
18,010 corpus weight
- emprunta
emprunta
18,009 corpus weight
- enchaîna
enchaîna
18,008 corpus weight
- encombremen…
encombrements
18,007 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embellis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embellis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.be.li\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embellis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embellis is uncommon French at frequency #81,991 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.be.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for embellis, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is embellis, spelled E-M-B-E-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de embellir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de embellir.
- 3Première personne du singulier du passé simple de embellir.
- 4Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de embellir.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de embellir.
- 6Masculin pluriel du participe passé de embellir.
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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