encourir
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“encourir” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #49,062 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #49,062
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Attirer sur soi, faciliter la survenue, la réalisation, d'un châtiment, d'une peine venant d’une autorité supérieure, d'une pénalité, d'un jugement moral. Le sens de ce verbe contient une connotati...
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 | encourir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encourir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for encourir is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ku.ʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,062 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for encourir, with forms such as "ecnourir", "enccourir", and "encoruir". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "encours", "encourt", "enfouir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is encourir, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Attirer sur soi, faciliter la survenue, la réalisation, d'un châtiment, d'une peine venant d’une autorité supérieure, d'une pénalité, d'un jugement moral. Le sens de ce verbe contient une connotation de probabilité mais non de certitude : l'objet encouru n'est pas systématiquement réalisé (une peine encourue n'est pas systématiquement appliquée).
- 2Mériter un châtiment, une peine, un jugement moral.
- 3Risquer d'être condamné à une peine, risquer d'être sanctionné.
- 4Être susceptible de devoir payer une somme.
- 5S'esquiver rapidement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnourir,enccourir,encoruir,encouirr,encourirr,encourri,encourrir,encuorir,enncourir,enocurir,necourir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encourir - 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 “encourir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-C-O-U-R-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.ku.ʁiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “encours” - see the side-by-side comparison. encourir vs encours
- 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.