enchaîna
\ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na\
The verdict
“enchaîna” is uncommon French (frequency #81,993 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,993
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de enchaîner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enchaina · enchaîna · French
enchaîna · rank #81,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,993
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emprunta
Nearest frequency peer: emprunta (-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 « enchaîna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elme
elme
18,011 corpus weight
- embellis
embellis
18,010 corpus weight
- emprunta
emprunta
18,009 corpus weight
- enchaîna
enchaîna
18,008 corpus weight
- encombremen…
encombrements
18,007 corpus weight
- encourages
encourages
18,006 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enchaîna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enchaîna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enchaîna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enchaîna is uncommon French at frequency #81,993 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ʃɛ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de enchaîner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for enchaîna in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enchaîna, spelled E-N-C-H-A-Î-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de enchaîner.
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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