enclavée

\ɑ̃.kla.ve\

/\ɑ̃.kla.ve\/ verb

The verdict

“enclavée” is uncommon French (frequency #64,418 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,418
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de enclaver.

Corpus desk

Index FR-enclavee · enclavée · French

enclavée · rank #64,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,418
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH empile

Nearest frequency peer: empile (-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 « enclavée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enclavée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for enclavée
PropertyValue
Headwordenclavée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.kla.ve\
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,418
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « enclavée » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).enclavéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « empile » (#64,417), « encombrées » (#64,419), « empaler » (#64,416). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enclavée » est au #64,418. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

enclavée is uncommon French at frequency #64,418 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.kla.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de enclaver.".

Zero misspellings are on record for enclavée in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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. The correct French form is enclavée, spelled E-N-C-L-A-V-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de enclaver.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il relierait la région enclavée du lac Albert, en Ouganda, à Tanga, au bord de l’océan Indien, en Tanzanie, d’où le pétrole pourrait être exporté à travers le monde.

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 "enclavée"?
"enclavée" is spelled E-N-C-L-A-V-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.kla.ve\.
What does "enclavée" mean?
As a verb, "enclavée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de enclaver.
How do you pronounce "enclavée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enclavée" is \ɑ̃.kla.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enclavée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list