enclume
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,790
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
enclume is aFrenchnoun. It means: Masse de fer, ordinairement portée par un bloc de bois, sur laquelle on bat le fer, l’argent et les autres métaux, pour leur donner une certaine forme, ou pour les écrouir. Pronounced \ɑ̃.klym\. Often confused with enculé and exclue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enclume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.klym\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enclume is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.klym\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,790 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for enclume, with forms such as "ecnlume", "encclume", and "encllume". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "enculé", "exclue", "exclure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enclume, spelled E-N-C-L-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masse de fer, ordinairement portée par un bloc de bois, sur laquelle on bat le fer, l’argent et les autres métaux, pour leur donner une certaine forme, ou pour les écrouir.
- 2Outil de fer plat dont se servent les couvreurs pour tailler les ardoises et de Celui dont on se sert pour façonner des ferrets.
- 3Petite pièce métallique qui dans une cartouche se trouve entre l’amorce et la poudre.
- 4Osselet de l’oreille moyenne qui a une certaine ressemblance avec une enclume.
- 5Personne ne sachant pas nager.
- 6Personne à la compréhension limitée ou lente.
- 7Partie supérieure d’un cumulonimbus (incus).
- 8Position sexuelle où le partenaire réceptif est allongé sur le dos, ses jambes le séparant de son partenaire qui lui fait face, ses pieds ou talons sur les épaules de ce dernier.
- 9Meuble représentant l’outil de forge du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée de profil.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnlume,encclume,encllume,enclmue,encluem,enclumme,enculme,enlcume,ennclume,neclume
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enclume
Misspelling Variants of "enclume"
Frequency rank: #37,790 in French
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