emboutir
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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emboutir is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre convexe, rendre bombé une plaque, par emboutissage. Pronounced \ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emboutir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for emboutir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for emboutir in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is emboutir, spelled E-M-B-O-U-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre convexe, rendre bombé une plaque, par emboutissage.
- 2Rendre convexe, rendre bombé une plaque, par emboutissage.
- 3Travailler au marteau ou au repoussoir une plaque de métal pour l’arrondir, y former le relief d’une empreinte.
- 4Travailler l'argent sur une machine nommée étampe.
- 5Revêtir un ornement de bois avec du métal, pour le préserver de la détérioration.
- 6Endommager par une collision, heurter violemment.
- 7Le vent et la sécheresse avaient tout chargé d’électricité. Les hommes sautillaient nerveusement, s’interpellaient, se heurtaient et quelquefois sur la chaussée noire deux autos s’emboutissaient en faisant de grands bruits de ferraille et de klaxon coincé. — (Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Lullaby, 1978, collection Folio Junior, pages 59-60)
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