encerclent
\ɑ̃.sɛʁkl\
The verdict
“encerclent” is uncommon French (frequency #52,661 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,661
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encercler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encerclent · encerclent · French
encerclent · rank #52,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,661
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encadrements
Nearest frequency peer: encadrements (-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 « encerclent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emportez
emportez
47,342 corpus weight
- encadrements
encadrements
47,341 corpus weight
- encerclent
encerclent
47,340 corpus weight
- encoche
encoche
47,339 corpus weight
- encouragea
encouragea
47,338 corpus weight
- encourent
encourent
47,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encerclent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encerclent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛʁkl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encerclent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encerclent is uncommon French at frequency #52,661 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.sɛʁkl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for encerclent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is encerclent, spelled E-N-C-E-R-C-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encercler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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