embouteillages
\ɑ̃.bu.tɛ.jaʒ\
The verdict
“embouteillages” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,130. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,130
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de embouteillage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embouteillages · embouteillages · French
embouteillages · rank #20,130 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,130
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effect
Nearest frequency peer: effect (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « embouteillages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détailler
détailler
79,875 corpus weight
- effect
effect
79,872 corpus weight
- embouteilla…
embouteillages
79,871 corpus weight
- encouragent
encouragent
79,869 corpus weight
- entendons
entendons
79,868 corpus weight
- enterprise
enterprise
79,867 corpus weight
What this shows « embouteillages » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embouteillages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bu.tɛ.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #20,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embouteillages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around embouteillages (IPA \ɑ̃.bu.tɛ.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,130 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de embouteillage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for embouteillages, with forms such as "ebmouteillages", "embbouteillages", and "embotueillages". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "embouteillage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is embouteillages, spelled E-M-B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de embouteillage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embouteillages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si les Lisboètes sont arrivés en retard au stade Vélodrome à cause des embouteillages, ils n’ont pas trainé pour marquer, puisque Francisco Trincao a trompé Pau Lopez d’un enroulé du gauche avant même que la première minute soit écoulée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmouteillages
- embbouteillages
- embotueillages
- embouetillages
- embouteilages
- embouteilalges
- embouteillaegs
- embouteillagess
- embouteillagges
- embouteillagse
- embouteillgaes
- emboutelilages
- emboutiellages
- emboutteillages
- embuoteillages
- emmbouteillages
- emobuteillages
- mebouteillages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embouteillages - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).