encart
\ɑ̃.kaʁ\
The verdict
“encart” is uncommon French (frequency #50,198 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,198
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Document isolé ou fraction de document, carte ou imprimé quelconque, inséré dans un ouvrage, libre ou relié avec les cahiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encart · encart · French
encart · rank #50,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,198
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encaissent
Nearest frequency peer: encaissent (-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 « encart »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empressée
empressée
49,806 corpus weight
- empêcheront
empêcheront
49,805 corpus weight
- encaissent
encaissent
49,804 corpus weight
- encart
encart
49,803 corpus weight
- engouffrer
engouffrer
49,802 corpus weight
- ensuivent
ensuivent
49,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encart » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encart » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encart is uncommon French at frequency #50,198 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Document isolé ou fraction de document, carte ou imprimé quelconque, inséré dans un ouvrage, libre ou relié avec les cahiers.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for encart, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 encart, spelled E-N-C-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Document isolé ou fraction de document, carte ou imprimé quelconque, inséré dans un ouvrage, libre ou relié avec les cahiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après la publication du livre, un nouveau référé fut diligenté par ces mêmes associations afin d’obtenir qu’un encart ou une bande signale le fait qu’il faisait l’objet de l’opprobre de la communauté musulmane.
Depuis quelques jours, des encarts publicitaires apparaissent automatiquement à l'écran du tableau de bord, qui font notamment la promotion pour des assurances, à chaque stop et aux feux rouges. Autrement dit, quand votre voiture est à l'arrêt.
This word in other languages
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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