encerclant
\ɑ̃.sɛʁ.klɑ̃\
The verdict
“encerclant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,917 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,917
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de encercler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encerclant · encerclant · French
encerclant · rank #82,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,917
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emprisonnent
Nearest frequency peer: emprisonnent (-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 « encerclant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empoigné
empoigné
17,087 corpus weight
- emporteront
emporteront
17,086 corpus weight
- emprisonnent
emprisonnent
17,085 corpus weight
- encerclant
encerclant
17,084 corpus weight
- encreur
encreur
17,082 corpus weight
- enfouit
enfouit
17,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encerclant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encerclant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛʁ.klɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encerclant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encerclant is uncommon French at frequency #82,917 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.sɛʁ.klɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de encercler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for encerclant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is encerclant, spelled E-N-C-E-R-C-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de encercler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encerclant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même que les Scythes épargnèrent les riches emporia des Grecs de la Mer Noire, les Sarmates, tout en les encerclant, se contentent de les « sarmatiser » pendant des siècles avant de leur porter, à la suite des Goths, le coup de grâce, au cours du IIIe siècle de notre ère seulement.
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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