embrasser
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,753
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
embrasser is aFrenchverb. It means: Serrer, étreindre avec les deux bras. Pronounced \ɑ̃.bʁa.se\. It ranks #5,753 in French word frequency. Often confused with embrassez and embrase.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁa.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for embrasser is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.bʁa.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,753 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for embrasser, with forms such as "ebmrasser", "embarsser", and "embbrasser". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "embrassez", "embrase", "embrasse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 embrasser, spelled E-M-B-R-A-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serrer, étreindre avec les deux bras.
- 2Entourer, contourner.
- 3Contenir quelque chose dans toute son étendue.
- 4Saisir par le regard, par la pensée quelque chose dans toute son étendue.
- 5Serrer avec les cuisses son cheval pour être plus ferme.
- 6S’attacher à quelque chose par choix, par préférence.
- 7Serrer quelqu’un entre ses bras et lui donner un baiser.
- 8Donner un ou des baisers à quelqu’un.
- 9Accepter une idée, adhérer à un concept.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebmrasser,embarsser,embbrasser,embraser,embrasesr,embrasserr,embrassre,embrrasser,embrsaser,emmbrasser,emrbasser,mebrasser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for embrasser
Misspelling Variants of "embrasser"
Frequency rank: #5,753 in French
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