embouchures
\ɑ̃.bu.ʃyʁ\
The verdict
“embouchures” is uncommon French (frequency #86,666 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,666
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de embouchure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embouchures · embouchures · French
embouchures · rank #86,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,666
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH elli
Nearest frequency peer: elli (-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 « embouchures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effleurant
effleurant
13,338 corpus weight
- elli
elli
13,336 corpus weight
- embouchures
embouchures
13,335 corpus weight
- embouts
embouts
13,334 corpus weight
- emmêlent
emmêlent
13,333 corpus weight
- Emre
Emre
13,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embouchures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embouchures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bu.ʃyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embouchures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embouchures is uncommon French at frequency #86,666 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bu.ʃyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de embouchure.".
embouchures has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is embouchures, spelled E-M-B-O-U-C-H-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de embouchure.
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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