enclavement

\ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\

/\ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\/ noun

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for enclavement
PropertyValue
Headwordenclavement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#81,121
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « enclavement » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).enclavementtombe 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: « enchérisseurs » (#81,120), « encerclées » (#81,119), « enflées » (#81,123). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « enclavement » est au #81,121. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Action d’enclaver ou résultat de cette action.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’enclavement d’une terre dans une autre.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enclavement"?
"enclavement" is spelled E-N-C-L-A-V-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\.
What does "enclavement" mean?
As a noun, "enclavement" means: Action d’enclaver ou résultat de cette action.
How do you pronounce "enclavement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enclavement" is \ɑ̃.klav.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list