encorbellement
\ɑ̃.kɔʁ.bɛl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“encorbellement” is uncommon French (frequency #79,276 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,276
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction en saillie du plan vertical d’un mur, soutenue par un assemblage de corbeaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encorbellement · encorbellement · French
encorbellement · rank #79,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,276
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emplissent
Nearest frequency peer: emplissent (-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 « encorbellement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empaillé
empaillé
20,728 corpus weight
- emplissent
emplissent
20,726 corpus weight
- encorbellem…
encorbellement
20,725 corpus weight
- enculée
enculée
20,724 corpus weight
- encyclopedia
encyclopedia
20,723 corpus weight
- enfila
enfila
20,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encorbellement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « encorbellement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encorbellement is uncommon French at frequency #79,276 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.kɔʁ.bɛl.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encorbellement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’encorbellement en général, semble être une des caractéristiques principales de l’architecture musulmane de tout le bassin méditerranéen.
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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