embellissement
\ɑ̃.be.lis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“embellissement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,517
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’embellir ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embellissement · embellissement · French
embellissement · rank #34,517 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,517
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effrénée
Nearest frequency peer: effrénée (-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 « embellissement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déserteur
déserteur
65,488 corpus weight
- effrénée
effrénée
65,485 corpus weight
- embellissem…
embellissement
65,484 corpus weight
- empara
empara
65,482 corpus weight
- empêcha
empêcha
65,481 corpus weight
- encres
encres
65,480 corpus weight
What this shows « embellissement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embellissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.be.lis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #34,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embellissement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around embellissement (IPA \ɑ̃.be.lis.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,517 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’embellir ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for embellissement, with forms such as "ebmellissement", "embbellissement", and "embelilssement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 embellissement, spelled E-M-B-E-L-L-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’embellir ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embellissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierre tint serrés les cordons de sa bourse ; il ne voulut pas entendre parler d’embellissements ; l’ancien mobilier, fané, usé, éclopé, dut servir sans être seulement réparé. Félicité, qui sentait vivement, d’ailleurs, les raisons de cette ladrerie, s’ingénia pour donner un nouveau lustre à toutes ces ruines ; elle recloua elle-même certains meubles plus…
Il exécuta de grands travaux pour l’embellissement et l’assainissement de la ville, qu’il dota de son plus ancien aqueduc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmellissement
- embbellissement
- embelilssement
- embelissement
- embellisement
- embellisesment
- embellisseemnt
- embellissemennt
- embellissementt
- embellissemetn
- embellissemment
- embellissemnet
- embellissmeent
- embellsisement
- emblelissement
- emebllissement
- emmbellissement
- mebellissement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embellissement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "embellissement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).