embrouillées
\ɑ̃.bʁu.je\
The verdict
“embrouillées” is uncommon French (frequency #97,921 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,921
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de embrouillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrouillees · embrouillées · French
embrouillées · rank #97,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,921
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embassy
Nearest frequency peer: embassy (-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 « embrouillées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Elian
Elian
2,082 corpus weight
- embassy
embassy
2,081 corpus weight
- embrouillées
embrouillées
2,080 corpus weight
- emmagasine
emmagasine
2,079 corpus weight
- emmènerait
emmènerait
2,078 corpus weight
- empathiques
empathiques
2,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embrouillées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrouillées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embrouillées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embrouillées is uncommon French at frequency #97,921 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de embrouillé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for embrouillées in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is embrouillées, spelled E-M-B-R-O-U-I-L-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de embrouillé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embrouillées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa signature se contourna en arabesques maniaques et embrouillées.
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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