imbroglio
\ɛ̃.bʁɔ.ljo\
The verdict
“imbroglio” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,806
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embrouille ; confusion ; situation embrouillée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbroglio · imbroglio · French
imbroglio · rank #46,806 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,806
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immatriculés
Nearest frequency peer: immatriculés (+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 « imbroglio »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hébergées
hébergées
53,198 corpus weight
- idolâtrie
idolâtrie
53,197 corpus weight
- imbroglio
imbroglio
53,195 corpus weight
- immatriculés
immatriculés
53,194 corpus weight
- immuables
immuables
53,193 corpus weight
- impertinence
impertinence
53,192 corpus weight
What this shows « imbroglio » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbroglio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.bʁɔ.ljo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imbroglio »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around imbroglio (IPA \ɛ̃.bʁɔ.ljo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,806 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for imbroglio, with forms such as "ibmroglio", "imbbroglio", and "imborglio". 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 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is imbroglio, spelled I-M-B-R-O-G-L-I-O.
Definition
- 1Embrouille ; confusion ; situation embrouillée.
- 2Pièce de théâtre dont l’intrigue est fort compliquée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imbroglio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoi que tu en dises, tu aimes les romans, les imbroglios, les situations scabreuses ; tu as juste assez de force pour friser les difficultés sans avaries, assez de faiblesse pour en savourer délicatement les transes. Tu te donnes à toi-même toutes les émotions extrêmes, depuis la peur d’être un malhonnête homme jusqu’au plaisir orgueilleux de te sentir q…
Notre esprit est toujours comme à la merci d’un téléphoniste farceur […] qui lui branche la communication avec n’importe qui, n’importe quoi, se plaisant aux pires confusions, aux imbroglios les plus fâcheux, les plus déraisonnables.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ibmroglio
- imbbroglio
- imborglio
- imbrgolio
- imbrogglio
- imbrogilo
- imbrogllio
- imbrogloi
- imbrolgio
- imbrroglio
- immbroglio
- imrboglio
- mibroglio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imbroglio - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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