encercler
\ɑ̃.sɛʁ.kle\
The verdict
“encercler” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,315
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entourer d’un cercle, entourer à 360°.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encercler · encercler · French
encercler · rank #42,315 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,315
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empêchaient
Nearest frequency peer: empêchaient (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « encercler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- emmena
emmena
57,688 corpus weight
- empêchaient
empêchaient
57,687 corpus weight
- encercler
encercler
57,686 corpus weight
- encerclés
encerclés
57,685 corpus weight
- endure
endure
57,684 corpus weight
- enflé
enflé
57,683 corpus weight
What this shows « encercler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encercler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛʁ.kle\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encercler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around encercler (IPA \ɑ̃.sɛʁ.kle\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,315 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for encercler, with forms such as "ecnercler", "enccercler", and "encecrler". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "encerclés", "encerclée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 encercler, spelled E-N-C-E-R-C-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Entourer d’un cercle, entourer à 360°.
- 2Entourer d’un cercle, entourer à 360°.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encercler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encercler un tonneau.
Une antique muraille encerclait la cité, livrant passage, par une vaste et belle porte fortifiée, à une grand’route bordée d’arbres.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnercler
- enccercler
- encecrler
- encerccler
- encercelr
- encerclerr
- encercller
- encerclre
- encerlcer
- encerrcler
- encrecler
- enecrcler
- enncercler
- necercler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encercler - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "encercler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).