enclavement
\ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“enclavement” is uncommon French (frequency #81,121 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,121
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’enclaver ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enclavement · enclavement · French
enclavement · rank #81,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,121
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enchérisseurs
Nearest frequency peer: enchérisseurs (-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 « enclavement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encastrées
encastrées
18,883 corpus weight
- encerclées
encerclées
18,882 corpus weight
- enchérisseu…
enchérisseurs
18,881 corpus weight
- enclavement
enclavement
18,880 corpus weight
- enflées
enflées
18,878 corpus weight
- engourdie
engourdie
18,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enclavement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enclavement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enclavement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enclavement is uncommon French at frequency #81,121 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’enclaver ou résultat de cette action.".
enclavement has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 enclavement, spelled E-N-C-L-A-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’enclaver ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enclavement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enclavement d’une terre dans une autre.
Si la géographie est responsable de cet enclavement, l’histoire et la géopolitique viennent en renforcer les effets.
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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