encadraient
\ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ\
The verdict
“encadraient” is uncommon French (frequency #96,878 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,878
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de encadrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encadraient · encadraient · French
encadraient · rank #96,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,878
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empochent
Nearest frequency peer: empochent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « encadraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empochent
empochent
3,124 corpus weight
- encadraient
encadraient
3,123 corpus weight
- enceint
enceint
3,122 corpus weight
- engagerai
engagerai
3,120 corpus weight
- enhanced
enhanced
3,119 corpus weight
- enlumineurs
enlumineurs
3,118 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encadraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encadraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encadraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encadraient is uncommon French at frequency #96,878 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ka.dʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de encadrer.".
encadraient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is encadraient, spelled E-N-C-A-D-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de encadrer.
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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