enfant
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#433
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
enfant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Garçon ou fille qui n’a pas encore atteint l’adolescence. Pronounced \ɑ̃.fɑ̃\. It ranks #433 in French word frequency. Often confused with enfin and étant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enfant is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #433 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for enfant, with forms such as "efnant", "enafnt", and "enfannt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "enfin", "étant", "enfuit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enfant, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Garçon ou fille qui n’a pas encore atteint l’adolescence.
- 2Fils ou fille, de tout âge, par relation au père ou à la mère.
- 3Fils, par relation à ses parents.
- 4Descendant, descendante en ligne directe et indirecte.
- 5Personne proche de manière affective, amicale, filiale.
- 6Représentants les plus jeunes d’une population.
- 7Chose qui est produite par une autre, qui en naît, qui en résulte.
- 8(En apposition ou attribut, avec valeur d'adjectif). Qui a le caractère d’un enfant.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efnant,enafnt,enfannt,enfantt,enfatn,enffant,enfnat,ennfant,nefant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enfant
Misspelling Variants of "enfant"
Frequency rank: #433 in French
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Nearby French words
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