enfermer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,651
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
enfermer is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre quelqu’un ou quelque chose dans un lieu fermé de tous côtés. Pronounced \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me\. It ranks #9,651 in French word frequency. Often confused with enterrer and énerver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enfermer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,651 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for enfermer, with forms such as "efnermer", "enefrmer", and "enfemrer". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "enterrer", "énerver", "enferme", 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 enfermer, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre quelqu’un ou quelque chose dans un lieu fermé de tous côtés.
- 2Mettre quelqu’un dans un asile psychiatrique, dans une prison, dans un couvent, etc.
- 3Serrer, mettre une chose dans un lieu, dans un meuble, que l’on ferme, pour la mieux conserver, pour la soustraire aux regards, pour la garder plus sûrement.
- 4Environner de toutes parts.
- 5Contenir ; comprendre.
- 6Contenir en soi-même.
- 7Se retirer dans un lieu qu’on ferme ensuite, pour que personne ne puisse s’y introduire.
- 8Demeurer dans une place qui va être assiégée et qu’on veut défendre.
- 9Se faire religieux ou religieuse dans un cloître.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efnermer,enefrmer,enfemrer,enferemr,enfermerr,enfermmer,enfermre,enferrmer,enffermer,enfremer,ennfermer,nefermer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enfermer
Misspelling Variants of "enfermer"
Frequency rank: #9,651 in French
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