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enfeeblement

noun

enfeeblement is spelled E-N-F-E-E-B-L-E-M-E-N-T: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, enfeeblement means “The act of enfeebling; debilitation, enervation or devitalization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of enfeeblement is enfeeblements.

How many letters and syllables are in enfeeblement?

Letters12: E-N-F-E-E-B-L-E-M-E-N-T
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is enfeeblement?

Enfeeblement appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of enfeeblement

  • enfeeblements plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does enfeeblement mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of enfeebling; debilitation, enervation or devitalization

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does enfeeblement come from?

From enfeeble + -ment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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