enchaîner
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,257
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
enchaîner is aFrenchverb. It means: Lier quelqu’un avec une chaîne ou attacher quelqu’un avec des chaînes à quelque chose. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ʃe.ne\. Often confused with entraîner and enchaînés.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enchaîner is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ʃe.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,257 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for enchaîner, with forms such as "ecnhaîner", "encahîner", and "encchaîner". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enchaîner, spelled E-N-C-H-A-Î-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnhaîner,encahîner,encchaîner,enchainer,enchanîer,enchaîenr,enchaînerr,enchaînner,enchaînre,enchhaîner,enchîaner,enhcaîner,ennchaîner,nechaîner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enchaîner
Misspelling Variants of "enchaîner"
Frequency rank: #14,257 in French
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Nearby French words
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