encourue

/\ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#43,410

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

encourue is aFrenchverb. It means: Participe passé féminin singulier de encourir. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\. Often confused with entouré and entourée.

Key facts for encourue
PropertyValue
Headwordencourue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\
Letters8
Frequency rank#43,410
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of encourue in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for encourue is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,410 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participe passé féminin singulier de encourir.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for encourue, with forms such as "ecnourue", "enccourue", and "encoruue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "entouré", "entourée", "encourus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is encourue, spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de encourir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecnourue,enccourue,encoruue,encoureu,encourrue,encouure,encuorue,enncourue,enocurue,necourue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encourue

Misspelling Variants of "encourue"

ecnourue8enccourue9encoruue8encoureu8encourrue9encouure8encuorue8enncourue9
Misspelling Variants of "encourue"

Frequency rank: #43,410 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "encourue"?
"encourue" is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\.
What does "encourue" mean?
As a verb, "encourue" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de encourir.
What words are commonly confused with "encourue"?
"encourue" is commonly confused with "entouré", "entourée", "encourus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "encourue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "encourue" is \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "encourue" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.