embrassade
\ɑ̃.bʁa.sad\
The verdict
“embrassade” is uncommon French (frequency #99,029 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,029
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de deux personnes qui s’embrassent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrassade · embrassade · French
embrassade · rank #99,029 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,029
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embrigadés
Nearest frequency peer: embrigadés (+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 « embrassade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elma
elma
975 corpus weight
- embrassade
embrassade
972 corpus weight
- embrigadés
embrigadés
971 corpus weight
- embûche
embûche
970 corpus weight
- enchaînaient
enchaînaient
969 corpus weight
- encodeur
encodeur
968 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embrassade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrassade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁa.sad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embrassade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embrassade is uncommon French at frequency #99,029 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁa.sad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de deux personnes qui s’embrassent.".
embrassade has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is embrassade, spelled E-M-B-R-A-S-S-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action de deux personnes qui s’embrassent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embrassade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait quelque chose d’enivrant dans ces embrassades fréquentes, données et reçues, qu’on aurait pris tous les passans pour des voyageurs qui revenaient d’une terre étrangère, et qui revoyaient la patrie.
Pour comprendre le bonheur que nous éprouvions à embrasser notre vache et à être embrassés par elle, il faut se rappeler que ni Mattia ni moi, nous n’étions gâtés par les embrassades : notre sort n’était pas celui des enfants choyés, qui ont à se défendre contre les caresses de leurs mères ; et tous deux cependant nous aurions bien aimé à nous faire cares…
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); 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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