encourages
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“encourages” is uncommon French (frequency #81,995 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,995
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encourages · encourages · French
encourages · rank #81,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,995
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encombrements
Nearest frequency peer: encombrements (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « encourages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emprunta
emprunta
18,009 corpus weight
- enchaîna
enchaîna
18,008 corpus weight
- encombremen…
encombrements
18,007 corpus weight
- encourages
encourages
18,006 corpus weight
- endeavour
endeavour
18,005 corpus weight
- engraissent
engraissent
18,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encourages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encourages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encourages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encourages is uncommon French at frequency #81,995 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ku.ʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for encourages in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is encourages, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de encourager.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de encourager.
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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