embrassant
\ɑ̃.bʁa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“embrassant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,930
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l’habitude d’embrasser, qui aime à embrasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrassant · embrassant · French
embrassant · rank #28,930 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,930
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH economics
Nearest frequency peer: economics (-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 « embrassant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dépressive
dépressive
71,076 corpus weight
- députation
députation
71,075 corpus weight
- economics
economics
71,072 corpus weight
- embrassant
embrassant
71,071 corpus weight
- emprisonnée
emprisonnée
71,068 corpus weight
- enfouisseme…
enfouissement
71,067 corpus weight
What this shows « embrassant » 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 | embrassant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embrassant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around embrassant (IPA \ɑ̃.bʁa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,930 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for embrassant, with forms such as "ebmrassant", "embarssant", and "embbrassant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "embrassent", "embrassa", "embrassait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 embrassant, spelled E-M-B-R-A-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a l’habitude d’embrasser, qui aime à embrasser.
- 2Se dit des feuilles et du pétiole quand leur expansion embrasse tout ou partie de la tige d’où ils sortent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how embrassant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces enfants ne sont pas embrassants.
— Que cela est beau ! s’écria-t-elle. Monsieur Mille, souffrez que je vous embrasse. Un capucin qui, son menton sur le manche de sa bêche, se tenait dans le cercle des curieux, battit des mains à la vue d’un si grand embrassement. Alors de jeunes patriotes qui l’entouraient le poussèrent en riant vers l’embrassante dame, qui l’embrassa au milieu des accla…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmrassant
- embarssant
- embbrassant
- embrasant
- embrasasnt
- embrassannt
- embrassantt
- embrassatn
- embrassnat
- embrrassant
- embrsasant
- emmbrassant
- emrbassant
- mebrassant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embrassant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).