embellissent
\ɑ̃.be.lis\
The verdict
“embellissent” is uncommon French (frequency #74,749 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,749
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de embellir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embellissent · embellissent · French
embellissent · rank #74,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,749
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH elmo
Nearest frequency peer: elmo (-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 « embellissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effaces
effaces
25,257 corpus weight
- efféminés
efféminés
25,256 corpus weight
- electricity
electricity
25,255 corpus weight
- elmo
elmo
25,253 corpus weight
- embellissent
embellissent
25,252 corpus weight
- embrasure
embrasure
25,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embellissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embellissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.be.lis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #74,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embellissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embellissent is uncommon French at frequency #74,749 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.be.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for embellissent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is embellissent, spelled E-M-B-E-L-L-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de embellir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de embellir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent 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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