Énéide
\e.ne.id\
The verdict
“Énéide” is uncommon French (frequency #86,348 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,348
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poème héroïque de Virgile, qui relate les aventures du prince troyen Énée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eneide · Énéide · French
Énéide · rank #86,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,348
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH émuler
Nearest frequency peer: émuler (-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 « Énéide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élèveraient
élèveraient
13,657 corpus weight
- émettrices
émettrices
13,655 corpus weight
- émuler
émuler
13,654 corpus weight
- Énéide
Énéide
13,653 corpus weight
- épaissi
épaissi
13,652 corpus weight
- épatée
épatée
13,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Énéide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Énéide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.ne.id\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Énéide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Énéide is uncommon French at frequency #86,348 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.ne.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poème héroïque de Virgile, qui relate les aventures du prince troyen Énée.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Énéide in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Énéide, spelled É-N-É-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Poème héroïque de Virgile, qui relate les aventures du prince troyen Énée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Énéide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans son cabinet de travail, au bruit clair et mécanique du piano sur lequel ses filles exécutaient, non loin, des exercices difficiles, M. Bergeret, maître de conférences à la Faculté des lettres, préparait sa leçon sur le huitième livre de l’Énéide.
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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