encombre
\ɑ̃.kɔ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“encombre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,957. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,957
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obstacle, difficulté matérielle ou d’autre nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encombre · encombre · French
encombre · rank #24,957 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,957
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effacée
Nearest frequency peer: effacée (-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 « encombre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détestait
détestait
75,048 corpus weight
- ee
ee
75,046 corpus weight
- effacée
effacée
75,045 corpus weight
- encombre
encombre
75,044 corpus weight
- enfantin
enfantin
75,043 corpus weight
- ensoleillée
ensoleillée
75,042 corpus weight
What this shows « encombre » 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 | encombre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encombre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around encombre (IPA \ɑ̃.kɔ̃bʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,957 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Obstacle, difficulté matérielle ou d’autre nature.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for encombre, with forms such as "ecnombre", "enccombre", and "encmobre". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "encore", "encontre", "encombrer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is encombre, spelled E-N-C-O-M-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Obstacle, difficulté matérielle ou d’autre nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encombre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme pendant sa jeunesse il avait été manégé par quelques-unes des femmes les plus spirituelles de la cour de Louis XV, il ne désespérait pas trop de préserver la comtesse de tout encombre…
La mère Camille vécut là pendant quarante-cinq ans, non point sans traverses, car elle était vouée aux encombres et aux catastrophes ; mais les revers semblaient ne pas l’atteindre et sa bonne humeur s’en augmentait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnombre
- enccombre
- encmobre
- encobmre
- encombbre
- encomber
- encombrre
- encommbre
- encomrbe
- enncombre
- enocmbre
- necombre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encombre - 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 "encombre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).