embrouillée
\ɑ̃.bʁu.je\
The verdict
“embrouillée” is uncommon French (frequency #57,242 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,242
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de embrouillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrouillee · embrouillée · French
embrouillée · rank #57,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,242
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Emblem
Nearest frequency peer: Emblem (-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 « embrouillée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- détestaient
détestaient
42,763 corpus weight
- dévaloriser
dévaloriser
42,762 corpus weight
- Emblem
Emblem
42,760 corpus weight
- embrouillée
embrouillée
42,759 corpus weight
- embruns
embruns
42,758 corpus weight
- empressa
empressa
42,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embrouillée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrouillée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embrouillée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embrouillée is uncommon French at frequency #57,242 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de embrouillé.".
embrouillée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is embrouillée, spelled E-M-B-R-O-U-I-L-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de embrouillé.
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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