encastrer
\ɑ̃.kas.tʁe\
The verdict
“encastrer” is uncommon French (frequency #60,752 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,752
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enchâsser, unir une chose à une autre par le moyen d’une entaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encastrer · encastrer · French
encastrer · rank #60,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,752
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emmerdant
Nearest frequency peer: emmerdant (-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 « encastrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elimination
elimination
39,252 corpus weight
- Ellington
Ellington
39,251 corpus weight
- emmerdant
emmerdant
39,250 corpus weight
- encastrer
encastrer
39,249 corpus weight
- encercle
encercle
39,248 corpus weight
- encrage
encrage
39,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encastrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encastrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kas.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encastrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encastrer is uncommon French at frequency #60,752 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.kas.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
encastrer has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is encastrer, spelled E-N-C-A-S-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enchâsser, unir une chose à une autre par le moyen d’une entaille.
- 2En parlant d'une personne, se placer dans l'encadrement d'une porte ou d'une fenêtre.
- 3Insérer entre deux éléments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encastrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut encastrer ce tableau dans le lambris.
Ces deux choses ne s’encastrent pas bien l’une dans l’autre.
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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