encensoir
\ɑ̃.sɑ̃.swaʁ\
The verdict
“encensoir” is uncommon French (frequency #93,730 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,730
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de cassolette suspendue à de petites chaînes, dans laquelle on brûle de l’encens et dont on se sert pour encenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encensoir · encensoir · French
encensoir · rank #93,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,730
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empennage
Nearest frequency peer: empennage (-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 « encensoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emmêler
emmêler
6,274 corpus weight
- empanadas
empanadas
6,273 corpus weight
- empennage
empennage
6,272 corpus weight
- encensoir
encensoir
6,271 corpus weight
- enchevêtrés
enchevêtrés
6,270 corpus weight
- endormez
endormez
6,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encensoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encensoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɑ̃.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encensoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encensoir is uncommon French at frequency #93,730 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.sɑ̃.swaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de cassolette suspendue à de petites chaînes, dans laquelle on brûle de l’encens et dont on se sert pour encenser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for encensoir in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is encensoir, spelled E-N-C-E-N-S-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Sorte de cassolette suspendue à de petites chaînes, dans laquelle on brûle de l’encens et dont on se sert pour encenser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encensoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je recueillais de loin quelques parfums de l’encensoir, et Dieu permettait que je glanasse l’épi du pauvre derrière sa riche moisson.
Tous s’agenouillèrent. Il se fit un grand silence. Et les encensoirs, allant à pleine volée, glissaient sur leurs chaînettes.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).