embrouiller
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,537
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
embrouiller is aFrenchverb. It means: Brouiller, mettre des choses dans une confusion telle qu’on ne peut les démêler. Pronounced \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\. Often confused with embrouilles and embrouillé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for embrouiller is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.bʁu.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,537 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for embrouiller, with forms such as "ebmrouiller", "embbrouiller", and "emboruiller". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "embrouilles", "embrouillé", 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 embrouiller, spelled E-M-B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Brouiller, mettre des choses dans une confusion telle qu’on ne peut les démêler.
- 2Troubler quelqu’un, lui faire perdre le fil de ses idées.
- 3Perdre le fil de ses idées, de son discours.
- 4Chercher noise ; importuner
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebmrouiller,embbrouiller,emboruiller,embroiuller,embrouilelr,embrouiler,embrouillerr,embrouillre,embrouliler,embrrouiller,embruoiller,emmbrouiller,emrbouiller,mebrouiller
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for embrouiller
Misspelling Variants of "embrouiller"
Frequency rank: #28,537 in French
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