embrayer
\ɑ̃.bʁe.je\
The verdict
“embrayer” is uncommon French (frequency #83,827 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,827
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre les parties d’un mécanisme qui doivent être mues en communication avec le moteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrayer · embrayer · French
embrayer · rank #83,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,827
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embaume
Nearest frequency peer: embaume (-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 « embrayer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Elisabetta
Elisabetta
16,178 corpus weight
- Elisha
Elisha
16,177 corpus weight
- embaume
embaume
16,175 corpus weight
- embrayer
embrayer
16,174 corpus weight
- encaisses
encaisses
16,171 corpus weight
- encarts
encarts
16,170 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embrayer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁe.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embrayer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embrayer is uncommon French at frequency #83,827 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁe.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for embrayer, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is embrayer, spelled E-M-B-R-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre les parties d’un mécanisme qui doivent être mues en communication avec le moteur.
- 2Commencer une action, à la suite d'une précédente. Réagir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embrayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’accompagne Detlev qui veut acheter de la came. On rencontre des copains, et je répète tout le temps : « C’est dégueulasse, ce qui est arrivé à Axel. » Mais les autres n’embraient pas.
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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