encore
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#85
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
encore is anFrenchadv. It means: Qui sert à marquer que l’action ou l’état dont il s’agit se continue, se continuera ou s’est continué jusqu’au temps indiqué par le verbe ou par les autres circonstances du discours. Pour la négati... Pronounced \ɑ̃.kɔʁ\. It ranks #85 in French word frequency. Often confused with entre and encre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for encore is 6 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.kɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #85 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for encore, with forms such as "ecnore", "enccore", and "encoer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "entre", "encre", "Enora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is encore, spelled E-N-C-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à marquer que l’action ou l’état dont il s’agit se continue, se continuera ou s’est continué jusqu’au temps indiqué par le verbe ou par les autres circonstances du discours. Pour la négation, voir pas encore.
- 2De nouveau.
- 3Aussi ; de plus.
- 4Il se joint aux adverbes plus (encore plus), ou moins (encore moins), lorsqu’on veut exprimer qu’une quantité, qu’une chose est supérieure ou inférieure à une autre.
- 5Se joint d’une façon analogue à certains verbes qui marquent l’augmentation ou la diminution.
- 6Se place au commencement d’une phrase où l’on exprime une restriction qui enchérit sur ce qu’on vient de dire.
- 7Au moins. Du moins.
- 8S’emploie aussi comme une sorte d’interjection, lorsqu’on reproche à quelqu’un une récidive.
- 9Cependant ; toutefois.
- 10Souligne le pire en comparant le mauvais à celui-ci.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnore,enccore,encoer,encorre,encroe,enncore,enocre,necore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encore
Misspelling Variants of "encore"
Frequency rank: #85 in French
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