encart

\ɑ̃.kaʁ\

/\ɑ̃.kaʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encart » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for encart
PropertyValue
Headwordencart
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.kaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#50,198
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « encart » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.encarttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « encaissent » (#50,197), « engouffrer » (#50,199), « empêcheront » (#50,196). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « encart » est au #50,198. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Document isolé ou fraction de document, carte ou imprimé quelconque, inséré dans un ouvrage, libre ou relié avec les cahiers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how encart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "encart"?
"encart" is spelled E-N-C-A-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.kaʁ\.
What does "encart" mean?
As a noun, "encart" means: Document isolé ou fraction de document, carte ou imprimé quelconque, inséré dans un ouvrage, libre ou relié avec les cahiers.
How do you pronounce "encart"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "encart" is \ɑ̃.kaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "encart" come from?
"encart" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "encart", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list