enchaîner
\ɑ̃.ʃe.ne\
The verdict
“enchaîner” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,257
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lier quelqu’un avec une chaîne ou attacher quelqu’un avec des chaînes à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enchainer · enchaîner · French
enchaîner · rank #14,257 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,257
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH echo
Nearest frequency peer: echo (-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 « enchaîner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désignant
désignant
85,747 corpus weight
- echo
echo
85,745 corpus weight
- enchaîner
enchaîner
85,744 corpus weight
- essaies
essaies
85,743 corpus weight
- exotiques
exotiques
85,742 corpus weight
- exprimant
exprimant
85,741 corpus weight
What this shows « enchaîner » 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 | enchaîner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʃe.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enchaîner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around enchaîner (IPA \ɑ̃.ʃe.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,257 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for enchaîner, with forms such as "ecnhaîner", "encahîner", and "encchaîner". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "entraîner", "enchaînés", "enchaîne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enchaîner, spelled E-N-C-H-A-Î-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lier quelqu’un avec une chaîne ou attacher quelqu’un avec des chaînes à quelque chose.
- 2Subjuguer ; asservir.
- 3Retenir, contenir.
- 4Faire découler certaines choses les unes des autres par une dépendance, une relation mutuelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enchaîner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enchaîner un chien.
Ils marchaient enchaînés les uns aux autres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnhaîner
- encahîner
- encchaîner
- enchainer
- enchanîer
- enchaîenr
- enchaînerr
- enchaînner
- enchaînre
- enchhaîner
- enchîaner
- enhcaîner
- ennchaîner
- nechaîner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enchaîner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).