Encelade
\ɑ̃.sə.lad\
The verdict
“Encelade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et de Gaïa (la Terre), fait prisonnier sous l’Etna à l’issue de la gigantomachie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encelade · Encelade · French
Encelade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Encelade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sə.lad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Encelade” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
Encelade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɑ̃.sə.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Encelade in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Encelade, spelled E-N-C-E-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et de Gaïa (la Terre), fait prisonnier sous l’Etna à l’issue de la gigantomachie.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Saturne, découvert en 1789 par William Herschel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Encelade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec près de trois cents orbites autour de Saturne, la sonde a découvert notamment des mers de méthane liquide sur Titan, son plus grand satellite naturel, et un vaste océan d’eau salée sous la surface glacée d’Encelade, une petite Lune saturnienne.
"[…]. Dans le cas de la lune Encelade de Saturne, il sera possible de quantifier les geysers", se réjouit Olivier Hernandez, le directeur du Planétarium Rio Tinto.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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