encreur
\ɑ̃.kʁœʁ\
The verdict
“encreur” is uncommon French (frequency #82,919 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,919
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui sert à encrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encreur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
encreur is uncommon French at frequency #82,919 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.kʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui sert à encrer.".
encreur has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is encreur, spelled E-N-C-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à encrer.
This word in other languages
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 “encreur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N-C-R-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.