encours
\ɑ̃.kuʁ\
The verdict
“encours” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,842
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montant des titres représentant des engagements financiers en cours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encours · encours · French
encours · rank #22,842 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,842
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encouragée
Nearest frequency peer: encouragée (-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 « encours »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- embarcation
embarcation
77,162 corpus weight
- embrassent
embrassent
77,161 corpus weight
- encouragée
encouragée
77,160 corpus weight
- encours
encours
77,159 corpus weight
- endors
endors
77,158 corpus weight
- enfile
enfile
77,157 corpus weight
What this shows « encours » 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 | encours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « encours »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around encours (IPA \ɑ̃.kuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,842 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Montant des titres représentant des engagements financiers en cours.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for encours, with forms such as "ecnours", "enccours", and "encorus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "endors", "entouré", "enfouis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is encours, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Montant des titres représentant des engagements financiers en cours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On assiste en règle générale à une corrélation entre l’évolution du PIB et les encours de crédit à la consommation.
Il faut bien comprendre que les sociétés de gestion qui conçoivent ses produits, comme le leader BlackRock, qui représente environ la moitié des encours, ne prennent aucun risque. Mais les commissions récurrentes qu’elles touchent sur les encours en font des avocates intéressées des cryptomonnaies.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnours
- enccours
- encorus
- encourrs
- encourss
- encousr
- encuors
- enncours
- enocurs
- necours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encours - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).