endormissement
\ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“endormissement” is uncommon French (frequency #55,929 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,929
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action et effet de s'endormir ; transition graduelle entre l'état de veille et le sommeil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endormissement · endormissement · French
endormissement · rank #55,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,929
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encombrée
Nearest frequency peer: encombrée (-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 « endormissement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enchanter
enchanter
44,075 corpus weight
- encombrante
encombrante
44,074 corpus weight
- encombrée
encombrée
44,073 corpus weight
- endormissem…
endormissement
44,072 corpus weight
- enduro
enduro
44,071 corpus weight
- enfonces
enfonces
44,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endormissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endormissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #55,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endormissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endormissement is uncommon French at frequency #55,929 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action et effet de s'endormir ; transition graduelle entre l'état de veille et le sommeil.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for endormissement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is endormissement, spelled E-N-D-O-R-M-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action et effet de s'endormir ; transition graduelle entre l'état de veille et le sommeil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how endormissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De nombreux travaux ont étudié les odeurs qui agissent sur le cerveau pour favoriser l’endormissement, préconise Frédéric Saldmann, cardiologue et nutritionniste et auteur de Votre avenir sur ordonnance (éd. Robert Laffont).
Le stade d'entrée dans le sommeil est un stade d'endormissement appelé stade I.
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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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