encouragement
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“encouragement” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,921. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,921
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui encourage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encouragement · encouragement · French
encouragement · rank #14,921 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,921
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enclos
Nearest frequency peer: enclos (-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 « encouragement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détracteurs
détracteurs
85,083 corpus weight
- emploient
emploient
85,082 corpus weight
- enclos
enclos
85,081 corpus weight
- encourageme…
encouragement
85,080 corpus weight
- enculer
enculer
85,079 corpus weight
- endormie
endormie
85,078 corpus weight
What this shows « encouragement » 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 | encouragement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #14,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encouragement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around encouragement (IPA \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,921 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui encourage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for encouragement, with forms such as "ecnouragement", "enccouragement", and "encoruagement". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "encouragent", "encouragements", "encourageant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is encouragement, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui encourage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encouragement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois comme il ne voulait pas abandonner dans les eaux de la tribulation le jeune paroissien de son confrère, il lui donna quelques salutaires encouragements.
Les cris des coqs, les sabots des ânes poussés par l’encouragement sonore et monotone des paysans, réveillèrent Elhamy le lendemain.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnouragement
- enccouragement
- encoruagement
- encouargement
- encouraegment
- encourageemnt
- encouragemennt
- encouragementt
- encouragemetn
- encouragemment
- encouragemnet
- encouraggement
- encouragmeent
- encourgaement
- encourragement
- encuoragement
- enncouragement
- enocuragement
- necouragement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encouragement - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).