enferment
\ɑ̃.fɛʁm\
The verdict
“enferment” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,269
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enfermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enferment · enferment · French
enferment · rank #41,269 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,269
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH encourageait
Nearest frequency peer: encourageait (-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 « enferment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- embrassa
embrassa
58,736 corpus weight
- empiler
empiler
58,735 corpus weight
- emprisonne
emprisonne
58,734 corpus weight
- encourageait
encourageait
58,733 corpus weight
- enferment
enferment
58,732 corpus weight
- englober
englober
58,730 corpus weight
What this shows « enferment » 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 | enferment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enferment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around enferment (IPA \ɑ̃.fɛʁm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,269 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for enferment, with forms such as "efnerment", "enefrment", and "enfemrent". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "enfermer", "enferme", "enfermée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is enferment, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enfermer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de enfermer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enferment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De là, ils échafaudent des théories à ne plus respirer la nuit, ils inventent des prisons où ils s’enferment, pour ensuite se désenfermer à l’aide d’un medium et, finalement, parcourir ébahis les rues d’une « vie nouvelle ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efnerment
- enefrment
- enfemrent
- enferemnt
- enfermennt
- enfermentt
- enfermetn
- enfermment
- enfermnet
- enferrment
- enfferment
- enfrement
- ennferment
- neferment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enferment - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).