encouru
\ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\
The verdict
“encouru” is uncommon French (frequency #53,311 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,311
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de encourir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encouru · encouru · French
encouru · rank #53,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,311
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encline
Nearest frequency peer: encline (-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 « encouru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emmerdeur
emmerdeur
46,693 corpus weight
- encline
encline
46,691 corpus weight
- encouru
encouru
46,690 corpus weight
- endless
endless
46,689 corpus weight
- endossé
endossé
46,688 corpus weight
- endurcis
endurcis
46,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « encouru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encouru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « encouru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
encouru is uncommon French at frequency #53,311 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de encourir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for encouru, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is encouru, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de encourir.
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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