embrase
\ɑ̃.bʁaz\
The verdict
“embrase” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,444. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,444
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de embraser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrase · embrase · French
embrase · rank #44,444 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,444
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Emanuel
Nearest frequency peer: Emanuel (-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 « embrase »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- efficient
efficient
55,559 corpus weight
- Emanuel
Emanuel
55,558 corpus weight
- embrase
embrase
55,557 corpus weight
- endoctrinem…
endoctrinement
55,556 corpus weight
- enregistrait
enregistrait
55,555 corpus weight
- enrôlés
enrôlés
55,554 corpus weight
What this shows « embrase » 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 | embrase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁaz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embrase »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around embrase (IPA \ɑ̃.bʁaz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,444 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for embrase, with forms such as "ebmrase", "embarse", and "embbrase". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "emprise", "emphase", "embrasse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is embrase, spelled E-M-B-R-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de embraser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de embraser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de embraser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de embraser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de embraser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embrase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que le facétieux esprit “escunlos”, créateur de “Niòrlas”, embrase encore le Trech, et toute la ville, car il faut parfois se “déhargner” et “s’esclaffer” !…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmrase
- embarse
- embbrase
- embraes
- embrrase
- embrsae
- emmbrase
- emrbase
- mebrase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embrase - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "embrase", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).