encontre
\ɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\
The verdict
“encontre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,936
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commun uniquement usité dans à l’encontre et ses variantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encontre · encontre · French
encontre · rank #4,936 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,936
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH désigne
Nearest frequency peer: désigne (-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 « encontre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diminution
diminution
95,068 corpus weight
- délit
délit
95,067 corpus weight
- désigne
désigne
95,066 corpus weight
- encontre
encontre
95,065 corpus weight
- enquêtes
enquêtes
95,064 corpus weight
- esthétique
esthétique
95,063 corpus weight
What this shows « encontre » 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 | encontre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encontre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around encontre (IPA \ɑ̃.kɔ̃tʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,936 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom commun uniquement usité dans à l’encontre et ses variantes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for encontre, with forms such as "ecnontre", "enccontre", and "encnotre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "encore", "excentré", "encombre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is encontre, spelled E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom commun uniquement usité dans à l’encontre et ses variantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encontre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a aucune procédure disciplinaire à son encontre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnontre
- enccontre
- encnotre
- enconntre
- enconrte
- enconter
- encontrre
- enconttre
- encotnre
- enncontre
- enocntre
- necontre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encontre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "encontre", 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).