encouragent

\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\

/\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\/ verb

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The verdict

“encouragent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,132
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.

Corpus desk

Index FR-encouragent · encouragent · French

encouragent · rank #20,132 · 16 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,132
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH entendons

Nearest frequency peer: entendons (+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 « encouragent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « encouragent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

encouragent vs encourager
82% similar
encouragent vs encouragez
82% similar
encouragent vs entouraient
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for encouragent
PropertyValue
Headwordencouragent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#20,132
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encouragent »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).encouragentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « entendons » (#20,133), « embouteillages » (#20,130), « enterprise » (#20,134). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « encouragent » est au #20,132. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around encouragent (IPA \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,132 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for encouragent, with forms such as "ecnouragent", "enccouragent", and "encoruagent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "encourager", "encouragez", "entouraient", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is encouragent, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de encourager.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how encouragent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avoir autant de Français qui t’encouragent alors qu’on est à l'autre bout du monde, c’est vraiment bien, se réjouissait ainsi Luca Van Assche après sa victoire au deuxième tour.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ecnouragent
  • enccouragent
  • encoruagent
  • encouargent
  • encouraegnt
  • encouragennt
  • encouragentt
  • encouragetn
  • encouraggent
  • encouragnet
  • encourgaent
  • encourragent
  • encuoragent
  • enncouragent
  • enocuragent
  • necouragent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encouragent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ecnouragent2enccouragent1encoruagent2encouargent2encouraegnt2encouragennt1encouragentt1encouragetn2
Edit distance from "encouragent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "encouragent"?
"encouragent" is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\.
What does "encouragent" mean?
As a verb, "encouragent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.
What words are commonly confused with "encouragent"?
"encouragent" is commonly confused with "encourager", "encouragez", "entouraient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "encouragent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "encouragent" is \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "encouragent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "encouragent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coquillages#20,100interpeller#20,173intrinsèque#20,174inéluctable#20,175

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

communiquent16 variantsmaghrébine16 variantsaccompagnait16 variantsédification16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list