embobiner
\ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne\
The verdict
“embobiner” is uncommon French (frequency #62,955 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,955
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rouler un fil sur une bobine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embobiner · embobiner · French
embobiner · rank #62,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,955
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Edme
Nearest frequency peer: Edme (-2 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 « embobiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévoyé
dévoyé
37,051 corpus weight
- Edme
Edme
37,048 corpus weight
- embobiner
embobiner
37,046 corpus weight
- embusqués
embusqués
37,044 corpus weight
- empoisonnem…
empoisonnements
37,042 corpus weight
- empruntez
empruntez
37,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embobiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embobiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embobiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embobiner is uncommon French at frequency #62,955 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for embobiner in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is embobiner, spelled E-M-B-O-B-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rouler un fil sur une bobine.
- 2Envelopper quelqu’un de linges, comme sur une bobine.
- 3Entortiller quelqu’un par des cajoleries ou des raisonnements captieux ; tromper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embobiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se hâta seulement d’entraîner Châteaubedeau, par le plus court, à la pharmacie, et, là, le soigna à son tour, le pansa de ses mains, et l’embobina, quasi tout entier, de linges blancs.
Elle m’emmène partout chez elle, chez la mère Alice qui ne sent plus ses jambes embobinées dans une couverture et même un guérisseur lui a prédit du mieux, je me demande si elle se sent faire pipi.
This word in other languages
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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