enclin
\ɑ̃.klɛ̃\
The verdict
“enclin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,534
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est porté de son naturel à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enclin · enclin · French
enclin · rank #19,534 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,534
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emmenée
Nearest frequency peer: emmenée (-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 « enclin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ella
ella
80,470 corpus weight
- embargo
embargo
80,469 corpus weight
- emmenée
emmenée
80,468 corpus weight
- enclin
enclin
80,467 corpus weight
- enverra
enverra
80,466 corpus weight
- ernst
ernst
80,465 corpus weight
What this shows « enclin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enclin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.klɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enclin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around enclin (IPA \ɑ̃.klɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,534 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est porté de son naturel à quelque chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for enclin, with forms such as "ecnlin", "encclin", and "enciln". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "enfin", "engin", "enclos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is enclin, spelled E-N-C-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est porté de son naturel à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enclin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fut, pêle-mêle, l’ingratitude des concitoyens plus enclins à débiner les chaussettes à clous qu'à les soutenir, les manies exaspérantes du margis Barguinoux et les sornettes lourdingues du juteux Pénardin, la promotion qui ne viendrait jamais, je ne sais quoi encore, […].
La jeune fille se rendit à ce raisonnement, car on est toujours enclin à choisir la route de la facilité, moins pentue que celle du devoir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnlin
- encclin
- enciln
- enclinn
- encllin
- enclni
- enlcin
- ennclin
- neclin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enclin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enclin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).