enchère

\ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\

/\ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“enchère” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,990
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offre d’un prix supérieur à la mise à prix, ou au prix qu’un autre a déjà offert, en parlant des choses qui se vendent ou s’afferment au plus offrant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-enchere · enchère · French

enchère · rank #25,990 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,990
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH encadre

Nearest frequency peer: encadre (-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 « enchère »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « enchère » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

enchère vs encre
71% similar
enchère vs encore
71% similar
enchère vs entière
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for enchère
PropertyValue
Headwordenchère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#25,990
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enchère »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).enchèrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « encadre » (#25,989), « enlevez » (#25,991), « effectuera » (#25,988). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enchère » est au #25,990. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around enchère (IPA \ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,990 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for enchère, with forms such as "ecnhère", "encchère", and "enchere". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "encre", "encore", "entière", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is enchère, spelled E-N-C-H-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Offre d’un prix supérieur à la mise à prix, ou au prix qu’un autre a déjà offert, en parlant des choses qui se vendent ou s’afferment au plus offrant.
  2. 2
    Vente aux enchères.
  3. 3
    Engagement de réaliser un contrat supérieur à celui de l'adversaire.
  4. 4
    Bassin qui recueillait le jus de raisin avant son transfert en tonneau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enchère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De là, instance; puis jugement du tribunal de première instance de Châtelleraut, du 24 mai 1811, qui déclare la vente valable, et condamne Grosset à en payer le prix, - « Attendu que, s'agissant d'une adjudication aux enchères, le contrat est formé, dans ce cas, par la seule position de l’enchère de la part de l'enchérisseur, qui ne peut être dégagé que p…
  2. Cette procédure consiste à remettre en vente l’objet aux risques de l’adjudicataire défaillant, qui se voit ainsi tenu de la différence entre son enchère et le prix payé par l’acheteur final.

This word in other languages

bid(English)subasta(Español)Versteigerung(Deutsch)leilão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ecnhère
  • encchère
  • enchere
  • enchhère
  • enchrèe
  • enchèer
  • enchèrre
  • encèhre
  • enhcère
  • ennchère
  • nechère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enchère - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ecnhère2encchère1enchere1enchhère1enchrèe2enchèer2enchèrre1encèhre2
Edit distance from "enchère"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enchère"?
"enchère" is spelled E-N-C-H-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\.
What does "enchère" mean?
As a noun, "enchère" means: Offre d’un prix supérieur à la mise à prix, ou au prix qu’un autre a déjà offert, en parlant des choses qui se vendent ou s’afferment au plus offrant.
What words are commonly confused with "enchère"?
"enchère" is commonly confused with "encre", "encore", "entière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "enchère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enchère" is \ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enchère" come from?
"enchère" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enchère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

encadre#25,989enlevez#25,991Everest#25,998décaler#25,977

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

existera11 variantsflacons11 variantsdissocier11 variantsfourrures11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list