encorbellement
\ɑ̃.kɔʁ.bɛl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“encorbellement” is an uncommon French word, ranked #79,276 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #79,276
- frequency rank, French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Construction en saillie du plan vertical d’un mur, soutenue par un assemblage de corbeaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encorbellement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔʁ.bɛl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #79,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encorbellement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for encorbellement is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.kɔʁ.bɛl.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #79,276 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for encorbellement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 encorbellement, spelled E-N-C-O-R-B-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Construction en saillie du plan vertical d’un mur, soutenue par un assemblage de corbeaux.
- 2Voûte constituée de pierres empilées en cercles ; inclinées légèrement vers l’extérieur elles tiennent par leur propre poids.
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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Using “encorbellement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-C-O-R-B-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.