enduire
\ɑ̃.dɥiʁ\
The verdict
“enduire” is uncommon French (frequency #57,246 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,246
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appliquer un enduit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enduire · enduire · French
enduire · rank #57,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,246
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endurant
Nearest frequency peer: endurant (+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 « enduire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embrouillée
embrouillée
42,759 corpus weight
- embruns
embruns
42,758 corpus weight
- empressa
empressa
42,757 corpus weight
- enduire
enduire
42,755 corpus weight
- endurant
endurant
42,754 corpus weight
- ensevelie
ensevelie
42,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enduire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enduire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enduire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enduire is uncommon French at frequency #57,246 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.dɥiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for enduire in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 enduire, spelled E-N-D-U-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Appliquer un enduit.
- 2Couvrir d’une matière qui forme un enduit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enduire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aidé des conseils d’Atala, je bâtis un canot, que j’enduisis de gomme de prunier, après en avoir recousu les écorces avec des racines de sapin.
Les colleurs d’affiches après avoir enduit de colle très liquide le panneau d’affichage appliquent leur papier en le noyant littéralement de colle pour que l'allongement soit rapide et le glissement facile.
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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