enfances
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃s\
The verdict
“enfances” is uncommon French (frequency #65,124 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,124
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de enfance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfances · enfances · French
enfances · rank #65,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,124
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endocrinologie
Nearest frequency peer: endocrinologie (-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 « enfances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endiablée
endiablée
34,879 corpus weight
- endocrinolo…
endocrinologie
34,878 corpus weight
- enfances
enfances
34,877 corpus weight
- engagèrent
engagèrent
34,876 corpus weight
- engraisseme…
engraissement
34,875 corpus weight
- enluminure
enluminure
34,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfances is uncommon French at frequency #65,124 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de enfance.".
enfances doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 enfances, spelled E-N-F-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de enfance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enfances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des familles fermées, imperméables, des frères et des sœurs qui ont eu des enfances si mêlées qu’ils n’ont jamais pu les désemmailler.
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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