encouragent
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\
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
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.
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 | encouragent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #20,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encouragent” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around encouragent (IPA \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,132 among 201,161 “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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de encourager.
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.
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 “encouragent”
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-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “encourager” - see the side-by-side comparison. encouragent vs encourager
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.