encastrement
\ɑ̃.kas.tʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“encastrement” is uncommon French (frequency #87,598 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,598
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’encastrer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encastrement · encastrement · French
encastrement · rank #87,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,598
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endeuillés
Nearest frequency peer: endeuillés (+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 « encastrement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emmèneront
emmèneront
12,406 corpus weight
- emprisonnant
emprisonnant
12,405 corpus weight
- encastrement
encastrement
12,403 corpus weight
- endeuillés
endeuillés
12,402 corpus weight
- endoctrinés
endoctrinés
12,401 corpus weight
- endolori
endolori
12,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encastrement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encastrement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kas.tʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encastrement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encastrement is uncommon French at frequency #87,598 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.kas.tʁə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’encastrer ou résultat de cette action.".
encastrement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is encastrement, spelled E-N-C-A-S-T-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’encastrer ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encastrement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Traditionnellement, l’analyse du comportement des auto-élévatrices par des profondeurs d’eau faibles ou moyennes (inférieures à 50-60 mètres) est effectuée en «statique» sans tenir compte de l’encastrement des jambes dans le sol.
Antonyms
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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