embouer
\ɑ̃.bwe\
The verdict
“embouer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvrir, salir de boue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embouer · embouer · French
embouer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bwe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embouer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embouer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couvrir, salir de boue.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for embouer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is embouer, spelled E-M-B-O-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couvrir, salir de boue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embouer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses bottines éculées restaient embouées durant des jours, gardant la glaise des remparts.
À l’époque, à côté de la prison du Grand Châtelet, les bouchers abattaient les bêtes : “Tout cela ne compose qu’un même bloc empesté, emboué et placé à la descente du Pont-au-Change.”
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.