encrier
\ɑ̃.kʁi.je\
The verdict
“encrier” is uncommon French (frequency #55,247 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,247
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit vase où l’on met de l’encre et où on la prend avec la plume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encrier · encrier · French
encrier · rank #55,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,247
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 201,161
- PHOTO-FINISH emprisonnées
Nearest frequency peer: emprisonnées (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “encrier”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- emploiera
emploiera
44,757 corpus weight
- empressent
empressent
44,756 corpus weight
- emprisonnées
emprisonnées
44,755 corpus weight
- encrier
encrier
44,754 corpus weight
- endométriose
endométriose
44,753 corpus weight
- engagerait
engagerait
44,752 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “encrier” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.kʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encrier” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
encrier is uncommon French at frequency #55,247 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.kʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for encrier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 encrier, spelled E-N-C-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Petit vase où l’on met de l’encre et où on la prend avec la plume.
- 2Sorte de planche ou de table carrée sur laquelle les imprimeurs prenaient, avec un tampon ou avec le rouleau, l’encre dont ils noircissaient la forme.
- 3Réservoir fournissant l’encre aux rouleaux d’une presse mécanique ou d’une machine rotative.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "encrier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.