enclines
\ɑ̃.klin\
The verdict
“enclines” is uncommon French (frequency #84,757 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,757
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de enclin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enclines · enclines · French
enclines · rank #84,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,757
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enclenchement
Nearest frequency peer: enclenchement (-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 « enclines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embrouillent
embrouillent
15,247 corpus weight
- enclencheme…
enclenchement
15,245 corpus weight
- enclines
enclines
15,244 corpus weight
- encyclopédi…
encyclopédiques
15,243 corpus weight
- endoctriner
endoctriner
15,242 corpus weight
- endymion
endymion
15,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enclines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enclines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.klin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enclines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enclines is uncommon French at frequency #84,757 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.klin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de enclin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enclines, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is enclines, spelled E-N-C-L-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de enclin.
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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