énervement
\e.nɛʁ.və.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“énervement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,650
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surexcitation, état d’une personne énervée, incapable de maîtriser ses nerfs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enervement · énervement · French
énervement · rank #32,650 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,650
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élèvera
Nearest frequency peer: élèvera (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « énervement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écueils
écueils
67,355 corpus weight
- écureuils
écureuils
67,354 corpus weight
- éducatrice
éducatrice
67,353 corpus weight
- élèvera
élèvera
67,352 corpus weight
- énervement
énervement
67,351 corpus weight
- abandonnez
abandonnez
67,347 corpus weight
What this shows « énervement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | énervement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.nɛʁ.və.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « énervement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around énervement (IPA \e.nɛʁ.və.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,650 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Surexcitation, état d’une personne énervée, incapable de maîtriser ses nerfs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for énervement, with forms such as "enervement", "néervement", and "éenrvement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "énervent", "énormément", "enlèvement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is énervement, spelled É-N-E-R-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Surexcitation, état d’une personne énervée, incapable de maîtriser ses nerfs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how énervement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, bientôt, ses nerfs surexcités se lassèrent de cette tension anormale, épuisante, et Jacques sentit une irritation sans cause, un énervement invincible l'envahir, troubler sa douce quiétude.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enervement
- néervement
- éenrvement
- énerevment
- énerrvement
- énerveemnt
- énervemennt
- énervementt
- énervemetn
- énervemment
- énervemnet
- énervmeent
- énervvement
- énevrement
- énnervement
- énrevement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of énervement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).