encouragements
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“encouragements” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,700
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de encouragement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encouragements · encouragements · French
encouragements · rank #17,700 · 21 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,700
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Eleanor
Nearest frequency peer: Eleanor (-2 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 « encouragements »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- effrayé
effrayé
82,304 corpus weight
- Eleanor
Eleanor
82,303 corpus weight
- encourageme…
encouragements
82,301 corpus weight
- enrichit
enrichit
82,299 corpus weight
- environneme…
environnements
82,298 corpus weight
- escrocs
escrocs
82,297 corpus weight
What this shows « encouragements » 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 | encouragements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #17,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encouragements »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around encouragements (IPA \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,700 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de encouragement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for encouragements, with forms such as "ecnouragements", "enccouragements", and "encoruagements". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "encouragement", "encourageants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 encouragements, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de encouragement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how encouragements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous recevrez beaucoup d’encouragements de vos proches.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnouragements
- enccouragements
- encoruagements
- encouargements
- encouraegments
- encourageemnts
- encouragemennts
- encouragemenst
- encouragementss
- encouragementts
- encouragemetns
- encouragemments
- encouragemnets
- encouraggements
- encouragmeents
- encourgaements
- encourragements
- encuoragements
- enncouragements
- enocuragements
- necouragements
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encouragements - 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 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).