endiablé
\ɑ̃.dja.ble\
The verdict
“endiablé” is uncommon French (frequency #50,806 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,806
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est comme possédé du démon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endiable · endiablé · French
endiablé · rank #50,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,806
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enchaînée
Nearest frequency peer: enchaînée (-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 « endiablé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- emmental
emmental
49,198 corpus weight
- enchaînée
enchaînée
49,196 corpus weight
- endiablé
endiablé
49,195 corpus weight
- endorment
endorment
49,194 corpus weight
- enfanter
enfanter
49,193 corpus weight
- ennuyeuses
ennuyeuses
49,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endiablé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endiablé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dja.ble\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endiablé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endiablé is uncommon French at frequency #50,806 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.dja.ble\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for endiablé, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is endiablé, spelled E-N-D-I-A-B-L-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est comme possédé du démon.
- 2Qui tient du diable par la vivacité, l’ardeur, l’impétuosité.
- 3Effréné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how endiablé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que vit-il ? l’endiablé maraudeur qui, à cheval sur le mur, pêchait effrontément ses canards à la ligne dans la mare de la basse-cour.
Gallifet était aussi éloigné du cléricalisme que du nationalisme. Des innombrables coups de boutoir qu'il distribuait à la ronde avec un esprit endiablé il réservait une bonne part aux cagots et aux patriotards.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).