enfer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,775
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
enfer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Séjour des morts, avant le christianisme. Pronounced \ɑ̃.fɛʁ\. It ranks #2,775 in French word frequency. Often confused with EnR and ever.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enfer is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,775 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for enfer, with forms such as "efner", "enefr", and "enferr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "EnR", "ever", "enfin", 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 enfer, spelled E-N-F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Séjour des morts, avant le christianisme.
- 2Lieux souterrains où les Grecs et les Romains croyaient que les âmes allaient après la mort.
- 3Lieu destiné au supplice des damnés.
- 4Lieu où l’on souffre, où l’on est au supplice, où l’on est extrêmement gêné, tourmenté, où il y a beaucoup de confusion et de désordre.
- 5Démons ; puissances de l’enfer.
- 6Partie réservée d’une bibliothèque où sont conservés les ouvrages dont la communication est jugée dangereuse, considérés comme licencieux ou « contraires aux bonnes mœurs ». Créé au début du XIXᵉ siècle, il s’agissait au départ d’une simple pièce dans laquelle on enfermait ou cadenassait toutes les œuvres (livres, médailles, etc.) ou objets le plus souvent à caractère érotique et qui étaient interdits au grand public, mais accessible uniquement sur recommandation.
- 7Citerne où se recueillent les eaux mêlées au marc d’olive dans les huileries. On en tire une huile de basse qualité dite « huile d’enfer ».
- 8Phare situé en mer (où la vie est rude).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efner,enefr,enferr,enffer,enfre,ennfer,nefer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "enfer"
Frequency rank: #2,775 in French
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