encomium
\ɑ̃.kɔ.mjɔm\
The verdict
“encomium” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dictionnaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encomium · encomium · French
encomium · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encomium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔ.mjɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
encomium is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.kɔ.mjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for encomium, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 encomium, spelled E-N-C-O-M-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Dictionnaire.
- 2Genre littéraire de la rhétorique grecque visant à faire l’éloge d’une personne, d’une chose, d’idée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encomium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] le texte d’Érasme appartient à un genre bien particulier : il s’agit d’une déclamation, qui relève du genre démonstratif (ou épidictique), et plus précisément encore d’un encomium par lequel il s’agit de louer une personne, une chose, une idée. De plus, il s’agit d’une sous-espèce bien singulière d’encomium : un pseudo-encomium, c’est-à-dire un éloge…
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