enfermait
\ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“enfermait” is uncommon French (frequency #66,712 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,712
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfermait · enfermait · French
enfermait · rank #66,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,712
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enflures
Nearest frequency peer: enflures (+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 « enfermait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empruntes
empruntes
33,293 corpus weight
- encarté
encarté
33,292 corpus weight
- encastrable
encastrable
33,291 corpus weight
- enfermait
enfermait
33,289 corpus weight
- enflures
enflures
33,288 corpus weight
- enfuirent
enfuirent
33,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enfermait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enfermait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enfermait is uncommon French at frequency #66,712 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfermer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for enfermait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 enfermait, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enfermer.
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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