emmaillotement
\ɑ̃.ma.jɔt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“emmaillotement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’emmailloter, d’envelopper dans un linge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emmaillotement · emmaillotement · French
emmaillotement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emmaillotement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ma.jɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
emmaillotement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ma.jɔt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’emmailloter, d’envelopper dans un linge.".
emmaillotement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is emmaillotement, spelled E-M-M-A-I-L-L-O-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’emmailloter, d’envelopper dans un linge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emmaillotement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’emmaillotement des nouveau-nés.
Il semblerait en effet qu’en recréant des limites autour du corps du bébé comme dans le ventre de sa maman, l’emmaillotement apaise ses angoisses et facilite son sommeil.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.