embêtent
\ɑ̃.bɛt\
The verdict
“embêtent” is uncommon French (frequency #72,290 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,290
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de embêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embetent · embêtent · French
embêtent · rank #72,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,290
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Ellul
Nearest frequency peer: Ellul (-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 « embêtent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévotions
dévotions
27,715 corpus weight
- einen
einen
27,713 corpus weight
- Ellul
Ellul
27,712 corpus weight
- embêtent
embêtent
27,711 corpus weight
- emparait
emparait
27,709 corpus weight
- empiètent
empiètent
27,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embêtent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embêtent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embêtent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embêtent is uncommon French at frequency #72,290 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embêtent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 embêtent, spelled E-M-B-Ê-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de embêter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de embêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embêtent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les péquins t’embêtent, et par contrecoup, ça me touche à fond de cœur.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).