enfermement
\ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“enfermement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,642
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action ou processus d'enfermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfermement · enfermement · French
enfermement · rank #25,642 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,642
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emprisonner
Nearest frequency peer: emprisonner (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « enfermement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- employait
employait
74,362 corpus weight
- empoisonner
empoisonner
74,361 corpus weight
- emprisonner
emprisonner
74,360 corpus weight
- enfermement
enfermement
74,359 corpus weight
- enflure
enflure
74,358 corpus weight
- entendit
entendit
74,357 corpus weight
What this shows « enfermement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #25,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enfermement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around enfermement (IPA \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.mə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,642 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action ou processus d'enfermer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for enfermement, with forms such as "efnermement", "enefrmement", and "enfemrement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "enferment", "énormément", "enterrement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is enfermement, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action ou processus d'enfermer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfermement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ma pratique de pédopsychiatre la demande d’un examen médico-psychologique ou d’une expertise m’arrive principalement par le canal du tribunal de la jeunesse quand il s’agit d’envisager le placement ou l’enfermement d’un mineur.
tes pensées enfouies composent des énigmes tu repars en arrière zone de voie à découdre au tumulte de l’enfermement bien serré dans ton carcan
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efnermement
- enefrmement
- enfemrement
- enferemment
- enfermeemnt
- enfermemennt
- enfermementt
- enfermemetn
- enfermemment
- enfermemnet
- enfermmeent
- enfermmement
- enferrmement
- enffermement
- enfremement
- ennfermement
- nefermement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enfermement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).