encombrante
\ɑ̃.kɔ̃.bʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“encombrante” is uncommon French (frequency #55,927 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,927
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de encombrant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encombrante · encombrante · French
encombrante · rank #55,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,927
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enchanter
Nearest frequency peer: enchanter (-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 « encombrante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empêchez
empêchez
44,077 corpus weight
- encan
encan
44,076 corpus weight
- enchanter
enchanter
44,075 corpus weight
- encombrante
encombrante
44,074 corpus weight
- encombrée
encombrée
44,073 corpus weight
- endormissem…
endormissement
44,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encombrante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encombrante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔ̃.bʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encombrante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encombrante is uncommon French at frequency #55,927 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.kɔ̃.bʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de encombrant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for encombrante in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 encombrante, spelled E-N-C-O-M-B-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de encombrant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encombrante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La comédienne incarne une maman bipolaire encombrante revenant pourrir l’existence d’un jeune fleuriste joué par William Lebghil.
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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