endiguement
\ɑ̃.diɡ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“endiguement” is uncommon French (frequency #69,807 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,807
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’endiguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endiguement · endiguement · French
endiguement · rank #69,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,807
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empruntons
Nearest frequency peer: empruntons (-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 « endiguement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embauchant
embauchant
30,198 corpus weight
- emmènerai
emmènerai
30,196 corpus weight
- empruntons
empruntons
30,195 corpus weight
- endiguement
endiguement
30,194 corpus weight
- enliser
enliser
30,192 corpus weight
- enrobée
enrobée
30,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endiguement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endiguement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.diɡ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endiguement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endiguement is uncommon French at frequency #69,807 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.diɡ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for endiguement in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 endiguement, spelled E-N-D-I-G-U-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’endiguer.
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3Stratégie diplomatique qui vise à circonscrire l’influence d’un adversaire, notamment dans les domaines militaire, diplomatique et idéologique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how endiguement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la première année, c’est-à-dire immédiatement après l’endiguement, on a l’habitude d’ensemencer le polder en orge. C’est l’ensemencement qui réussit le mieux dans la terre imparfaitement desséchée et dessalée.
Cet incessant mouvement de flot et de jusant favorise la divagation des chenaux ; l’endiguement a été la seule solution pour les fixer.
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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