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— English words —

• embellish v. To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
• embellish v. (By extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
• embellish v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

— English words, defined in French —

• embellish v. Décorer, orner, parer.
• embellish v. Garnir.
• embellish v. Embellir, rendre plus beau.

25 English words from 3 English definitions

acceptable adding and attractive beautiful better By␣extension decorate distort embroider enhance extension in␣reality integral look make more necessary not ornamentation reality something sound strictly than

4 English words from 3 foreign definitions

beau parer plus rendre

4 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

Décorer Embellir Garnir orner

11 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

embellisht embellished embellisher embellishes embellishers embellishing embellishable embellishings embellishment embellishingly embellishments

11 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unembellished disembellished disembellishes nonembellished unembellishing disembellishing overembellished overembellishes overembellishing overembellishment overembellishments

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

disembellish overembellish

20 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

bel Bel bell Bell Belli ell Ell ELL 'e'll Ellis emb. ish Ish ISH -ish lis LIS lish Lish MBE

18 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

BME B.M.E. EBM Hsi ill ILL 'ill I'll Ill. Ille Leb LEB Leb. sil Sil SIL sill Sill

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

embellisht

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

shlemiel

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

imbellish

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