encouragement
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“encouragement” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #14,921 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #14,921
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce qui encourage.
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) |
Where “encouragement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for encouragement is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,921 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “encouragement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “encouragent” - see the side-by-side comparison. encouragement vs encouragent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.