embout
\ɑ̃.bu\
The verdict
“embout” is uncommon French (frequency #54,550 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,550
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garniture dont on entoure, dans une canne, un parapluie, etc., l’extrémité qui touche le sol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embout · embout · French
embout · rank #54,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,550
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embuscades
Nearest frequency peer: embuscades (+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 « embout »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eid
Eid
45,456 corpus weight
- embout
embout
45,451 corpus weight
- embuscades
embuscades
45,450 corpus weight
- EMC
EMC
45,449 corpus weight
- encaissée
encaissée
45,447 corpus weight
- Ende
Ende
45,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embout » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embout is uncommon French at frequency #54,550 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for embout, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 embout, spelled E-M-B-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Garniture dont on entoure, dans une canne, un parapluie, etc., l’extrémité qui touche le sol.
- 2Extrémité d’une chose.
- 3Revêtement de plomb étamé que l’on met, dans un bâtiment, à une corniche ou aux parties extérieures en bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un embout en caoutchouc.
Elle prit sa perceuse dans sa trousse à outils, y fixa un embout de tournevis cruciforme et se mit à ôter les vis du verrou et de la plaque de propreté.
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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