encoche
\ɑ̃.kɔʃ\
The verdict
“encoche” is uncommon French (frequency #52,662 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,662
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entaille en forme de coche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encoche · encoche · French
encoche · rank #52,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,662
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encerclent
Nearest frequency peer: encerclent (-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 « encoche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emportez
emportez
47,342 corpus weight
- encadrements
encadrements
47,341 corpus weight
- encerclent
encerclent
47,340 corpus weight
- encoche
encoche
47,339 corpus weight
- encouragea
encouragea
47,338 corpus weight
- encourent
encourent
47,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encoche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encoche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encoche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encoche is uncommon French at frequency #52,662 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.kɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
encoche has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is encoche, spelled E-N-C-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Entaille en forme de coche.
- 2Entaille faite au talon d’une flèche, à la gachette, ou au pêne d’une serrure, à la taille d’un boulanger pour marquer les pains fournis à crédit.
- 3Partie évidée ou découpée dans un objet.
- 4Échancrure médiane de la nageoire caudale d'un cétacé, fente qui en sépare les deux lobes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encoche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous remarquons fréquemment, au bord supéro-externe de la rotule, la présence d’une encoche plus ou moins profonde.
Jeanne porte une bannière très lourde. L’encoche de cuir lui écrase le ventre.
This word in other languages
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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