encercle
\ɑ̃.sɛʁkl\
The verdict
“encercle” is uncommon French (frequency #60,753 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,753
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de encercler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encercle · encercle · French
encercle · rank #60,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encastrer
Nearest frequency peer: encastrer (-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 « encercle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- engendrera
engendrera
39,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encercle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encercle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛʁkl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encercle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encercle is uncommon French at frequency #60,753 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.sɛʁkl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for encercle, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is encercle, spelled E-N-C-E-R-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de encercler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de encercler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de encercler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de encercler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de encercler.
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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