endurcir
\ɑ̃.dyʁ.siʁ\
The verdict
“endurcir” is uncommon French (frequency #67,490 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,490
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-endurcir · endurcir · French
endurcir · rank #67,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,490
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empowerment
Nearest frequency peer: empowerment (-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 « endurcir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elixir
elixir
32,514 corpus weight
- embrigademe…
embrigadement
32,513 corpus weight
- empowerment
empowerment
32,512 corpus weight
- endurcir
endurcir
32,511 corpus weight
- entourages
entourages
32,509 corpus weight
- entourez
entourez
32,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « endurcir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endurcir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dyʁ.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « endurcir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
endurcir is uncommon French at frequency #67,490 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.dyʁ.siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
endurcir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is endurcir, spelled E-N-D-U-R-C-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre dur.
- 2Rendre fort, rendre robuste.
- 3Accoutumer à ce qui est dur, fâcheux, pénible.
- 4Contracter une mauvaise habitude, au point de n’en avoir ni honte, ni remords.
- 5Rendre impitoyable, insensible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how endurcir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner une nouvelle trempe à du fer pour l’endurcir davantage.
Le corail s’endurcit à l’air.
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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