encouragea
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒa\
The verdict
“encouragea” is uncommon French (frequency #52,663 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de encourager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encouragea · encouragea · French
encouragea · rank #52,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,663
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encoche
Nearest frequency peer: encoche (-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 « encouragea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emportez
emportez
47,342 corpus weight
- encadrements
encadrements
47,341 corpus weight
- encerclent
encerclent
47,340 corpus weight
- encoche
encoche
47,339 corpus weight
- encouragea
encouragea
47,338 corpus weight
- encourent
encourent
47,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encouragea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encouragea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encouragea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encouragea is uncommon French at frequency #52,663 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de encourager.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for encouragea, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 encouragea, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de encourager.
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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