endormais
\ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“endormais” is uncommon French (frequency #76,538 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,538
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de endormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endormais · endormais · French
endormais · rank #76,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,538
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endocrinologue
Nearest frequency peer: endocrinologue (-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 « endormais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- encéphale
encéphale
23,466 corpus weight
- endive
endive
23,465 corpus weight
- endocrinolo…
endocrinologue
23,464 corpus weight
- endormais
endormais
23,463 corpus weight
- ENM
ENM
23,462 corpus weight
- enroulant
enroulant
23,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endormais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endormais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endormais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endormais is uncommon French at frequency #76,538 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
endormais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is endormais, spelled E-N-D-O-R-M-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de endormir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de endormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how endormais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Maisons-Alfort, tu me lisais des vers de Leopardi et je m’endormais parce que je n’y comprenais rien !
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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