enceinte
\ɑ̃.sɛ̃t\
The verdict
“enceinte” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,317. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,317
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de enceint. — Note d’usage : quasiment toujours en parlant d’une femme et non d’un animal femelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enceinte · enceinte · French
enceinte · rank #2,317 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,317
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH doux
Nearest frequency peer: doux (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “enceinte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- devons
devons
97,687 corpus weight
- dirais
dirais
97,686 corpus weight
- doux
doux
97,685 corpus weight
- enceinte
enceinte
97,684 corpus weight
- fans
fans
97,683 corpus weight
- laissez
laissez
97,682 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “enceinte” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enceinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “enceinte” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around enceinte (IPA \ɑ̃.sɛ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,317 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de enceint. — Note d’usage : quasiment toujours en parlant d’une femme et non d’un animal femelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for enceinte, with forms such as "ecneinte", "encceinte", and "enceinet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "entente", "éteinte", "enchanté", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enceinte, spelled E-N-C-E-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de enceint. — Note d’usage : quasiment toujours en parlant d’une femme et non d’un animal femelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enceinte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ville heureuse, ville enceinte d’un peuple roi, et seule enfermant sept collines en ses vastes remparts.
Or, quand elle devint enceinte, comme sa grossesse était un scandale (car elle n’avait point de mari), un homme, qui était célèbre pour avoir le don de prophétie, dit qu’elle donnerait naissance à une fille qui porterait un jour autour de son cou « la richesse et la foi d’un peuple ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecneinte
- encceinte
- enceinet
- enceinnte
- enceintte
- enceitne
- encenite
- enciente
- enecinte
- ennceinte
- neceinte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enceinte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enceinte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "enceinte" maps to 5 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "entente". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,317 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.