enfanter
\ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“enfanter” is uncommon French (frequency #50,808 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,808
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre au monde un enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfanter · enfanter · French
enfanter · rank #50,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endorment
Nearest frequency peer: endorment (-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 « enfanter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enchaînée
enchaînée
49,196 corpus weight
- endiablé
endiablé
49,195 corpus weight
- endorment
endorment
49,194 corpus weight
- enfanter
enfanter
49,193 corpus weight
- ennuyeuses
ennuyeuses
49,191 corpus weight
- ensanglantée
ensanglantée
49,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfanter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfanter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfanter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfanter is uncommon French at frequency #50,808 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enfanter, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is enfanter, spelled E-N-F-A-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre au monde un enfant.
- 2Faire naître ; faire apparaître.
- 3Produire, déterminer un effet, un résultat bon ou mauvais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfanter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux sœurs se casaient, plus ou moins confortablement mariées, et l’aînée, sacrifiant à la tradition, enfantait régulièrement deux fois tous les trois ans.
Beaucoup de ces tournures, et particulièrement les idiotismes de figures, constituent des bizarreries dans la langue même qui les a enfantées ; […].
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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