imbrique
\ɛ̃.bʁik\
The verdict
“imbrique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imbriquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbrique · imbrique · French
imbrique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | imbrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.bʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imbrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
imbrique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.bʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for imbrique in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is imbrique, spelled I-M-B-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imbriquer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imbriquer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de imbriquer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de imbriquer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de imbriquer.
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.