embuscades
\ɑ̃.bys.kad\
The verdict
“embuscades” is uncommon French (frequency #54,551 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,551
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de embuscade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-embuscades · embuscades · French
embuscades · rank #54,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,551
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embout
Nearest frequency peer: embout (-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 « embuscades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eid
Eid
45,456 corpus weight
- embout
embout
45,451 corpus weight
- embuscades
embuscades
45,450 corpus weight
- EMC
EMC
45,449 corpus weight
- encaissée
encaissée
45,447 corpus weight
- Ende
Ende
45,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « embuscades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | embuscades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bys.kad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « embuscades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
embuscades is uncommon French at frequency #54,551 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.bys.kad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de embuscade.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for embuscades, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 embuscades, spelled E-M-B-U-S-C-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de embuscade.
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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