embrouilles
\ɑ̃.bʁuj\
The verdict
“embrouilles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,151
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de embrouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embrouilles · embrouilles · French
embrouilles · rank #28,151 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,151
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embêtant
Nearest frequency peer: embêtant (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « embrouilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déstabilisa…
déstabilisation
71,854 corpus weight
- déterminisme
déterminisme
71,853 corpus weight
- eclipse
eclipse
71,852 corpus weight
- embrouilles
embrouilles
71,850 corpus weight
- embêtant
embêtant
71,849 corpus weight
- endiguer
endiguer
71,848 corpus weight
What this shows « embrouilles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embrouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁuj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « embrouilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around embrouilles (IPA \ɑ̃.bʁuj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,151 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de embrouille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for embrouilles, with forms such as "ebmrouilles", "embbrouilles", and "emboruilles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "embrouillé", "embrouiller", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is embrouilles, spelled E-M-B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de embrouille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmrouilles
- embbrouilles
- emboruilles
- embroiulles
- embrouilels
- embrouiles
- embrouilless
- embrouillse
- embrouliles
- embrrouilles
- embruoilles
- emmbrouilles
- emrbouilles
- mebrouilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embrouilles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).