embrasses
\ɑ̃.bʁas\
The verdict
“embrasses” is uncommon French (frequency #52,657 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,657
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de embrasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrasses · embrasses · French
embrasses · rank #52,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,657
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elvire
Nearest frequency peer: Elvire (-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 « embrasses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effondra
effondra
47,347 corpus weight
- effraient
effraient
47,346 corpus weight
- Elvire
Elvire
47,345 corpus weight
- embrasses
embrasses
47,344 corpus weight
- emportez
emportez
47,342 corpus weight
- encadrements
encadrements
47,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embrasses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrasses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embrasses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embrasses is uncommon French at frequency #52,657 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de embrasse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for embrasses in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is embrasses, spelled E-M-B-R-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de embrasse.
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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