embrassait
\ɑ̃.bʁa.sɛ\
The verdict
“embrassait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,267
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de embrasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrassait · embrassait · French
embrassait · rank #38,267 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,267
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embarquez
Nearest frequency peer: embarquez (-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 « embrassait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- eczéma
eczéma
61,737 corpus weight
- effluves
effluves
61,736 corpus weight
- embarquez
embarquez
61,735 corpus weight
- embrassait
embrassait
61,734 corpus weight
- embrun
embrun
61,733 corpus weight
- emplettes
emplettes
61,732 corpus weight
What this shows « embrassait » 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 | embrassait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embrassait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around embrassait (IPA \ɑ̃.bʁa.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,267 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de embrasser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for embrassait, with forms such as "ebmrassait", "embarssait", and "embbrassait". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "embrassent", "embrassant", "embrassa", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is embrassait, spelled E-M-B-R-A-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de embrasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embrassait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auprès de la cuisine se trouvait un puits entouré d’une margelle, et à poulie maintenue dans une branche de fer courbée, qu’embrassait une vigne aux pampres flétris, rougis, brouis par la saison.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmrassait
- embarssait
- embbrassait
- embrasait
- embrasasit
- embrassaitt
- embrassati
- embrassiat
- embrrassait
- embrsasait
- emmbrassait
- emrbassait
- mebrassait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embrassait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).