ombrageux
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#75,965
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ombrageux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui produit de l'ombre. Pronounced \ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒø\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ombrageux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for ombrageux is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ̃.bʁa.ʒø\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,965 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ombrageux in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ombrageux, spelled O-M-B-R-A-G-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui produit de l'ombre.
- 2Se dit au propre des chevaux, des mulets, etc., qui sont sujets à avoir peur et à s’arrêter, ou à se jeter subitement de côté, quand ils voient leur ombre ou quelque objet qui les surprend.
- 3Se dit d’une personne qui s’inquiète pour la moindre raison.
- 4Qui est porté à prendre ombrage, à s’offusquer pour un rien.
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Frequency rank: #75,965 in French
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